Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 20:20:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 20:20:39 -0400 Received: from tapu.f00f.org ([66.60.186.129]:64421 "EHLO tapu.f00f.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 20:20:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 17:26:06 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Peter Chubb Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux v2.5.40 - and a feature freeze reminder Message-ID: <20021002002606.GB27122@tapu.f00f.org> References: <96096729@toto.iv> <15770.10847.884743.30282@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15770.10847.884743.30282@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-No-Archive: Yes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 855 Lines: 21 On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:06:07AM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: > Indeed... And I'm trying to merge it all now into 2.5.40. Sorry > I've been a bit slow --- testing, especially error testing when > disks fill up, takes a long time (How long does it take to write 4 > TB to a disk? About a day with the machines I have here. Multiply > that by three (now four with XFS) filesystems to test...) With XFS, if you don't care about the file contents, you can create very larges (multi-TB) non-sparse files more or less instantly. If you want code for this, let me know and I'll hack something together. --cw - 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/