Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:16:40 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [CALL FOR TESTING] Make Ext3 fsck way faster [2.6.24-rc6 -mm patch] |
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 01:15:33PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > They won't fsck in planned downtimes. They will have to use fsck when > the shit hits the fan and they need to. Not sure about ext3, but big > XFS user with a close tie to the US goverment were concerned about this > case for really big filesystems and have sponsored speedup including > multithreading xfs_repair. I'm pretty sure the same arguments apply > to ext3, even if the filesystems are a few magnitudes smaller.
And to add to that thanks to the not quite optimal default of peridocially checking that I alwasy forget to turn off on test machines an ext3 fsck speedup would be in my personal interested, and probably that of tons of developers :)
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