On 12/29/2013 3:50 AM, Dave Chinner wrote: ... > I think you are forgetting that developer time is *expensive* and > *scarce*. This is essentially a solved problem: An SSD in a USB3 > enclosure as a temporary swap device is by far the most cost > effective way to make repair scale to arbitrary amounts of metadata. > It certainly scales far better than developer time and testing > resources... Now this is an interesting idea Dave. I hadn't considered temporary swap. Would USB be reliable enough for this? I've seen lots problem reports with folks using USB storage with Linux, random disconnections and what not. -- Stan _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs