Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 03 Aug 2004 23:37:39 -0700 | From | L A Walsh <> | Subject | Re: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck? |
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Not laptop, 2-CPU workstation used as home "server". :-)
Andi Kleen wrote:
>L A Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org> writes: > > > >>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. >> >> > >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. > >The truncate is independent from this because it is flushed with a >different path. > >-Andi > > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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