From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Subject: Re: [CALL FOR TESTING] Make Ext3 fsck way faster [2.6.24-rc6 -mm patch] Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:08:08 -0500 Message-ID: <27941.1200460088@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <200801140839.01986.abhishekrai@google.com> <20080114163412.83a8b18d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080115030441.a0270609.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <478CCC9C.4070507@emc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1200460088_2966P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , Abhishek Rai , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rohitseth@google.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: ric@emc.com Return-path: Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:36885 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751661AbYAPFIQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:08:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:09:16 EST." <478CCC9C.4070507@emc.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --==_Exmh_1200460088_2966P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:09:16 EST, Ric Wheeler said: > I actually think that the value of this kind of reduction is huge. We > have seen fsck run for days (not just hours) which makes the "restore > from backup" versus "fsck" decision favor the tapes... Funny thing is that for many of these sorts of cases, "restore from backup" is *also* a "days" issue unless you do a *lot* of very clever planning ahead to be able to get multiple tape drives moving at the same time while not causing issues at the receiving end either.... --==_Exmh_1200460088_2966P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFHjZE4cC3lWbTT17ARAoATAJ9121kFAZ7spB4tgg+8Ih4vIJIyWgCfZunO yiiJqYswZVGzfvudcB5Ko5M= =/EUP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1200460088_2966P--