On Jul 24, 2009 20:18 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 05:14:25PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > Well, it was important for the hardware RAID setups, to see how many > > stripe-aligned free chunks are available in the filesystem. Since > > mballoc will also try to allocate/align on "chunk" boundaries this > > is useful to know. If this chunksize depended on the superblock > > s_raid_stripe_width then it would be more useful for the general public. > > Yeah, I think what we should try to do is to display the chunk > information if s_raid_stripe_width if it is set, and otherwise only > print it if a chunk size is explicitly specified. Sounds like a plan? Yes, sounds reasonable. 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
