Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] [PATCH] Reducing average ext2 fsck time
	through fs-wide dirty bit]
From: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
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To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       pbadari@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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       zach.brown@oracle.com
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On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 13:52 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 06:32:39AM -0800, Valerie Henson wrote:
> > Note that ext3's habit of clearing indirect blocks on truncate would
> > break some things I want to do in the future. (Insert secret plans
> > here.)
> 
> This is fixable, but it would require making the truncate code (even
> more) complicated.....
> 
> 						- Ted
> 

Andreas suggested to perform asynchronous unlink/truncate to reduce the
latency of truncating/unlink before. What's other options we discussed
before, I forget.


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