On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:05:52AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Although I put this in, I now think it was a bad decision. > For most users, there is very little to be done in this case. They > get the message, once per day, with no real context or proposed action. > TBH, it generates support calls when it probably does not need to; > the message sounds more dire than the situation really is. > > Just nuke it. Normal investigation via blktrace or whatnot can > reveal poor IO patterns if bad performance is encountered. I wonder if this might be a good thing to enable or disable via sysfs tuning knob, just to make it a little easier for a random application developer to test for this? And do you have a list of the bad applications so we can nag them to fix them? - Ted -- 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