From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:44:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:44:49 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:20776 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:44:43 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 01:46:06 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Alan Cox Cc: Javi Roman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: mke2fs + 8MB + 2.2.5 = hangs Message-ID: <20010222014606.A3504@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <3A944C92.60A1E514@wanadoo.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:28:39PM +0000 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:28:39PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > [..] only when creating _very_ large file > systems with little memory, where the write throttling may still need a bit > of work. I posted here a few days ago a little patch that is meant to address that. I didn't got any feedback on it from the people experiencing those troubles but I am optimistic it will help ;). Andrea