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From: Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.0 - Watchdog patches (BK consistency checks)
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On December 29, 2003 07:49 pm, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Well, talk about FAAAAAAST drives (10,025/min SCSI kind) unless you have
> time to waste on all those BK consistency checks (which are, of course,
> what #3 is all about).
>
> Or am I missing some obvious short cut?

Is there a way to tell BK when to do consistency checks?  Here they easily take
15-20 min each time.  I would love to be able to tell BK to defer these checks.

Ed Tomlinson