On Jun 09, 2008 18:37 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 03:50:32PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > I don't know offhand how important the dblist structure is, so I'm not > > sure if there is a way to reduce the memory usage for it. I believe > > that in low-memory situations it is possible to use tdb in newer versions > > of e2fsck for the dblist, but I don't know much of the details. > > Yep, please see [scratch_files] section in e2fsck.conf. It is > described in the e2fsck.conf(5) man page. Hmm, maybe if the ext2fs_init_dblist() function returns PR_1_ALLOCATE_DBCOUNT this should be a user-fixable problem that asks if the user wants to use an on-disk tdb file in /var/tmp, and if that is a "no" then point them at the right section in /etc/e2fsck.conf? I don't think it is reasonable to default to using /tmp, because it might be a RAM-backed filesystem, and I suspect in most cases the root filesystem will not run out of memory in this way... Even if it fails because /var/tmp is read-only, or too small, it is no worse off than it is today. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
