On Apr 20, 2009 16:53 +0100, Jeremy Sanders wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> Eric Sandeen wrote: >>> Theodore Tso wrote: >>>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:43:37PM +0100, Jeremy Sanders wrote: >>>>> It takes a day or two to do the sync. I've only done it twice (one with >>>>> the old kernel, once with the new fedora testing kernel) and it happened >>>>> both times. I'm afraid the statistics are rather low number here. >>>>> >>>>> I did a different faster test (just copying my home directory lots of >>>>> times), but I wasn't able to get it to fail. That test didn't use much >>>>> disk space, however. Maybe it's worth just dd'ing a few TB of data onto >>>>> the device and seeing whether that fails. >>>>> >>>>> I didn't reboot this time - I did last time. I just unmounted the file >>>>> system and fsckd it. The filesystem is 8.2TB and the data is around >>>>> 2.5TB. >>> >>> I think trying a filesystem with just under 8T would be a useful test too. >> >> One other question - do you make use of xattrs on this filesystem? > > No. If you use anything like SELinux or ACLs you would also (indirectly) be using xattrs. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
