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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: fsck in background?
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 21:27:40 +0400
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To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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Hello!

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 09:14:07PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
> >>Yes, I know this sounds strange, but if one have 1T filesystem full of 
> >>small files,
> >>reiserfsck estimates duration to be of order of months,
> >We have a patch that significantly speeds things up.
> >In the similar case 28+ years estimated for pass 0 turned into 208 hours 
> >total
> As I said before, 208 hours is unacceptable and Vitaly needs to do more 
> work on it. If Vitaly doesn't know how to fix it, then I need to review 
> his algorithms in detail.

Well, we have identified some other bottlenecks, and Vitaly will work on those,
when we will fix current problems we are dealing with.

Bye,
    Oleg