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From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
To: "Dave Chinner" <david@fromorbit.com>,
	"Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz" <arekm@maven.pl>
Cc: Stor?? <289471341@qq.com>, Jeff Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [xfs_check Out of memory: ]
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 19:55:13 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52C0D281.7040704@hardwarefreak.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131229095033.GL20579@dastard>

On 12/29/2013 3:50 AM, Dave Chinner wrote:
...
> I think you are forgetting that developer time is *expensive* and
> *scarce*. This is essentially a solved problem: An SSD in a USB3
> enclosure as a temporary swap device is by far the most cost
> effective way to make repair scale to arbitrary amounts of metadata.
> It certainly scales far better than developer time and testing
> resources...

Now this is an interesting idea Dave.  I hadn't considered temporary
swap.  Would USB be reliable enough for this?  I've seen lots problem
reports with folks using USB storage with Linux, random disconnections
and what not.

-- 
Stan

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-12-30  1:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-27  6:48 [xfs_check Out of memory: ] Stor??
2013-12-27  7:41 ` Jeff Liu
2013-12-27  8:07   ` Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz
2013-12-27 22:42     ` Dave Chinner
2013-12-27 23:20       ` Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz
2013-12-28 16:55         ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-12-28 17:35           ` Jay Ashworth
2013-12-28 22:01             ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-12-28 23:39           ` Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz
2013-12-29  0:54             ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-12-29 11:23               ` Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz
2013-12-29  9:50         ` Dave Chinner
2013-12-29 11:57           ` Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz
2013-12-29 23:27             ` Dave Chinner
2013-12-30  1:55           ` Stan Hoeppner [this message]
2013-12-30 11:27             ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2013-12-30 13:19             ` Roger Willcocks
2013-12-30 16:25               ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-12-30 17:19             ` Stefan Ring

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