On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 04:21:59PM +0200, Carlos Maiolino wrote: > Hi, > > This is something I was thinking while working on that buffer retry stuff. > > Currently, we have no way to force xfsaild to run, and I was wondering if > somebody has any opinion if it would be useful to create a new xfsctl, to start > xfsaild for debugging purposes, using xfs_io to trigger it. THere's lots of ways to trigger it to run. You can do it on demand via a freeze or remount-ro or by filling up the log, or get it to run every second automatically iso there's no wait time at all by turning /proc/sys/fs/xfs/xfssyncd_centiseconds down to the minimum. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html