From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267454AbUHFAPi (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 20:15:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267978AbUHFAPi (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 20:15:38 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:24301 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267454AbUHFAPh (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 20:15:37 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:10:59 +1000 From: Nathan Scott To: L A Walsh , Helge Hafting Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck? Message-ID: <20040806011059.GA774@frodo> References: <200407050247.53743.norberto+linux-kernel@bensa.ath.cx> <40EEC9DC.8080501@tlinx.org> <20040729013049.GE800@frodo> <410FDA19.9020805@tlinx.org> <4111ECC2.4040301@hist.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4111ECC2.4040301@hist.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 10:16:02AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > L A Walsh wrote: > >Now I know it takes a while before data may end up on disk and that it > >may not go out to disk in an ordered fashion, but 2-3 days? > > Seems strange to me, but the amount of delay is entirely up to the > filesystem. The flushing of dirty file data is actually performed by kernel threads outside of the individual filesystems. I cannot explain a 2/3 day wait for data to get flushed, something really strange going on for you there. cheers. -- Nathan