Re: TESTING version of e2fsprogs available; please test!

Theodore Y. Ts'o (tytso@MIT.EDU)
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 19:44:18 -0400


Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:46:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@nwrain.net>

I am using the e2fsprogs-1.12-WIP here . All seems well.

Just one minor cavaet, When using 'e2fsck -fy /dev/?d??'
an (relatively) small filesystem IE: I have a system with
192MB Memory and it -never- accessed the disk drive .

umount /mnt
e2fsck -fy /dev/sdxx < which repaired some errors
e2fsck -fy /dev/sdxx < which never re-read the disk ????
mount /dev/sdxx /mnt
did somethnig on the disk
umount /mnt
e2fsck -fy /dev/sdxx < which re-read the disk
e2fsck -fy /dev/sdxx < which never re-read the disk ????

After .sig is all the info I can gater about the system
I am refering too. I hope this is enough to go on.
I beleive that the OS is caching the information that
e2fsck is requesting & thus it never gets to re-read the
disk .

Yes, and yes. There's nothing wrong with this, though. The OS was
doing what it was supposed to be doing --- speeding up disk accesses by
using your spare memory (with 192 MB, you have a lot of spare memory :-)
as buffer cache. Was there some reason you thought enough of this to
comment on it?

- Ted

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