From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267272AbUHDGjl (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 02:39:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267301AbUHDGjl (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 02:39:41 -0400 Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org ([64.81.245.74]:41876 "EHLO ishtar.tlinx.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267272AbUHDGjk (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 02:39:40 -0400 Message-ID: <41108433.9040002@tlinx.org> Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 23:37:39 -0700 From: L A Walsh User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (Windows/20040626) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com, nathans@sgi.com Subject: Re: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck? References: <200407050247.53743.norberto+linux-kernel@bensa.ath.cx> <40EEC9DC.8080501@tlinx.org> <20040729013049.GE800@frodo> <410FDA19.9020805@tlinx.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Not laptop, 2-CPU workstation used as home "server". :-) Andi Kleen wrote: >L A Walsh writes: > > > >>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? This isn't >>a case of a multi-extent file. My current fstab is only 1335 bytes long. >>I doubt it has ever been more than 2. >> >> > >Is this perhaps on a laptop? Some scripts for laptop use configure >insanely long data flush times to conserve HD spin time. Sometimes >it is even completely turned off (laptop mode). The extent >flush is dependent on the configured bdflush or pdflushd data >timeouts. > >The truncate is independent from this because it is flushed with a >different path. > >-Andi > > > >