From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: Typo in reiserfsck Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:33:12 +0300 Message-ID: <3DF7A108.6090507@namesys.com> References: <3DF76F33.2030101@acris.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <3DF76F33.2030101@acris.co.uk> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Julian Hall Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Vitaly Fertman Julian Hall wrote: > While rebuilding my file system's tree today, I noticed this message: > > ####### Pass 1 ####### > Looking for allocable blocks .. fininshed > > And a quick comment: the program doesn't really give much indication > of how long rebuilding the tree will take. When I started I certainly > had no idea that it would take over 4 hours (it hasn't finished yet, > but I think its getting close now...) to complete, and if I knew I > would probably have left the operation until I had more time > available. Read-only access to the file system would have been useful, > but unfortunately that option was not left open to me by the time I > realised that the operation would take so long... > > > > Thanks for your correction. Vitaly, how about collecting a table of statistics for completion time for various pieces of hardware, and asking the user if he would like to see it before starting fsck?