On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 17:10 -0400, tytso@xxxxxxx wrote: > On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 01:41:57PM -0700, john stultz wrote: > > > > I'll continue to play with your patch and see if I can con some some > > folks with more interesting storage setups to do some testing as well. > > You might want to ask djwong to play with it with his nice big > machine. (We don't need a big file system, but we want as many CPU's > as possible, and to use his "mailserver" workload to really stress the > journal. I'd recommend using barrier=0 for additional journal > lock-level stress testing, and then try some forced sysrq-b reboots > and then make sure that the filesystem is consistent after the journal > replay.) So I did the above on a 16way that I borrowed from Keith and Darrick. Got about 5 power-cycles and the journal was recovered and reported clean by fsck on bootup each time. So, again, doesn't prove its right, but nothing blew up. thanks -john -- 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