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SubjectRe: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck?
Not laptop, 2-CPU workstation used as home "server". :-)



Andi Kleen wrote:

>L A Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org> writes:
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>>Now I know it takes a while before data may end up on disk and that it
>>may not go out to disk in an ordered fashion, but 2-3 days? This isn't
>>a case of a multi-extent file. My current fstab is only 1335 bytes long.
>>I doubt it has ever been more than 2.
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>Is this perhaps on a laptop? Some scripts for laptop use configure
>insanely long data flush times to conserve HD spin time. Sometimes
>it is even completely turned off (laptop mode). The extent
>flush is dependent on the configured bdflush or pdflushd data
>timeouts.
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>The truncate is independent from this because it is flushed with a
>different path.
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>-Andi
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