Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:19:23 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH next] ocfs2: Reduce object size of mlog uses |
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On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:04:18 -0700 Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.de> wrote:
> > This code needs some pretty serious rework and rethink, perhaps > > involving a change to the emitted info. I was hoping one of the ocfs2 > > developers would take the bait, but they're all in hiding. > > If it functions the same and doesn't have a major performance change, I'm > pretty sure it'll be fine. We sometimes ask customers to enable some of the > debugging if they are having an issue. I would ask that it be tested > on a live system - a local fs, no cluster or cluster config required.
Is there a simpleton's guide to testing ocfs2 on a local disk? One which assumes a starting point of "knows how to type".
A few paragraphs in Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt would be great - then we can point non-ocfs2 people at it when they muck with stuff.
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