Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:29:31 +1000 | From | David Chinner <> | Subject | Re: [patch 00/14] Page cache cleanup in anticipation of Large Blocksize support |
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 04:41:18PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:30:02 +1000 David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> wrote: > > xfs_repair also uses direct I/O and does it's own userspace block > > caching and so avoids the problems involved with low memory, context > > unaware cache reclaim and blockdev cache thrashing. > > umm, that sounds like a mistake to me. fscks tend to get run when there's > no swap online. A small system with a large disk risks going oom and can > no longer be booted.
xfs_repair is never run at boot time - we don't force periodic boot time checks like ext3/4 does so this isn't a problem.
Cheers,
Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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