From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Fasheh Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 13:31:51 -0700 Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH next] ocfs2: Reduce object size of mlog uses In-Reply-To: References: <1429255070.2850.84.camel@perches.com> <20150422154604.3cb62467b66b1e313a30132c@linux-foundation.org> <20150423230418.GR17170@wotan.suse.de> <20150423161923.be61ea8cd9e64a9e30a23eca@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: <20150424203150.GS17170@wotan.suse.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Richard Weinberger Cc: Andrew Morton , Joe Perches , ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com, LKML On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 01:37:34AM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:19 AM, Andrew Morton > wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:04:18 -0700 Mark Fasheh wrote: > > > >> > This code needs some pretty serious rework and rethink, perhaps > >> > involving a change to the emitted info. I was hoping one of the ocfs2 > >> > developers would take the bait, but they're all in hiding. > >> > >> If it functions the same and doesn't have a major performance change, I'm > >> pretty sure it'll be fine. We sometimes ask customers to enable some of the > >> debugging if they are having an issue. I would ask that it be tested > >> on a live system - a local fs, no cluster or cluster config required. > > > > Is there a simpleton's guide to testing ocfs2 on a local disk? One > > which assumes a starting point of "knows how to type". > > See http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E41138/html/ol_crlcl_ocfs2.html As Richard points out, it's pretty straightforward, just use the '-M local' switch to mkfs.ocfs2. From there mount.ocfs2 will do the right thing when you ask it to load the file system. --Mark -- Mark Fasheh