Re: [PATCH 2/4] xfs: add debug knobs to control btree bulk load slack factors

Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-28T05:42:37Z

On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 05:44:37PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> They're not generally useful for users, obviously. For developers, it
> might be useful to construct btrees of various heights by crafting a
> filesystem with a certain number of records and then using repair+knobs
> to rebuild the index with a certain shape.
>
> Practically speaking, you'd only ever do that for extreme stress
> testing.

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