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From: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
To: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS defragmentation issue
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 10:43:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100912104321.5529f74c@galadriel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C8BDAC8.8010203@hardwarefreak.com>

Le Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:38:48 -0500 vous écriviez:

> That's good to know Dave.  Thanks.  I created a short-name script a
> while back with "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" merely so I could
> "clear the baffles" now and then. 

But isn't it somewhat risky? isn't there any risk of data loss by
dropping cache at any moment?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-12  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-10 14:41 XFS defragmentation issue John Lister
2010-09-10 19:00 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-09-11  6:55 ` John Lister
2010-09-11  8:23   ` Dave Chinner
2010-09-11  8:25     ` John Lister
2010-09-11 19:38     ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-09-11 19:57       ` Iustin Pop
2010-09-12  1:01         ` Dave Chinner
2010-09-12  8:43       ` Emmanuel Florac [this message]
2010-09-12  9:45         ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-09-13  8:05       ` Roel van Meer

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