Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] [PATCH] Reducing average ext2 fsck timethrough fs-wide dirty bit]

[Mingming Cao]

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.


> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language
> that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast
> and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory!
> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642
> _______________________________________________
> Ext2-devel mailing list
> Ext2-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ext2-devel

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/