On Tue, 5 May 2009, Chris Mason wrote:
> For ext3, mount -o barrier=1 and you should see something exciting. It
> won't BUG because ext3 isn't as serious about telling the users about IO
> problems as we are, but you should at least see messages.
With that option, ext3 gives a waring, yes:
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On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 12:51 -0700, Christian Kujau wrote:
> On Tue, 5 May 2009, Chris Mason wrote:
> > Somehow xen is turning a barrier request into an IO error. That's
> > really quite strange, but you can mount -o nobarrier.
>
> Thanks for the quick reply - yes, that helped. So, is that somethi
On Tue, 5 May 2009, Chris Mason wrote:
> Somehow xen is turning a barrier request into an IO error. That's
> really quite strange, but you can mount -o nobarrier.
Thanks for the quick reply - yes, that helped. So, is that something I
should report to the Xen folks? These "other filesystems" I ca
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 12:23 -0700, Christian Kujau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I could not find this anywhere else reported, so here we go:
> creating a new btrfs filesystem (btrfs-progs-unstable from git) and
> mounting it succeeds, unmounting however fails with the kernel messages
> attached to this mail
Hi,
I could not find this anywhere else reported, so here we go:
creating a new btrfs filesystem (btrfs-progs-unstable from git) and
mounting it succeeds, unmounting however fails with the kernel messages
attached to this mail. After that, I can still read and write to the
btrfs mount, but e.g.
Hello Jan,
* Jan-Frode Myklebust [090504 20:20]:
> "thin or shallow clones" sounds more like sparse images. I believe
> "linked clones" is the word for running multiple virtual machines off
> a single gold image. Ref, the "VMware View Composer" section of:
not exactly. VMware has one golden imag
On Tue, 5 May 2009 07:29:45 +1000
Dmitri Nikulin wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Heinz-Josef Claes wrote:
> > Hi, during the last half year I thought a little bit about doing dedup for
> > my backup program: not only with fixed blocks (which is implemented), but
> > with moving blocks (
