On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 01:15:33PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > They won't fsck in planned downtimes. They will have to use fsck when > the shit hits the fan and they need to. Not sure about ext3, but big > XFS user with a close tie to the US goverment were concerned about this > case for really big filesystems and have sponsored speedup including > multithreading xfs_repair. I'm pretty sure the same arguments apply > to ext3, even if the filesystems are a few magnitudes smaller.
And to add to that thanks to the not quite optimal default of peridocially checking that I alwasy forget to turn off on test machines an ext3 fsck speedup would be in my personal interested, and probably that of tons of developers :) -- 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/
