On 30 Dec 2013, at 01:55, Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > I'll just chip in here and mention that we get around this problem by exporting the broken xfs volume over iscsi and run xfs-repair on another machine with more memory / swap space. -- Roger _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
