On Wed, 16 May 2007 15:13:39 -0400 Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > If that's still working then the problem will _probably_ be directory > > writeout. Possibly inodes, but they should be well-laid-out. > > > > Were you using dir_index? That might be screwing things up. > > Yes, dir_index. A quick test of mkfs.ext3 -O ^dir_index seems to still > have the problem. Even though the inodes are well laid out, is the > order they get written sane? Should be: it uses first-fit. > Looks like ext3 is just walking a list of > bh/jh, maybe we can just sort the silly thing? The IO scheduler is supposed to do that. But I don't know what's causing this. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
