Re: XFS corruption during power-blackout

2005-07-05 Thread Sonny Rao
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 08:25:11PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > Sonny Rao wrote: { > > > >On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 07:53:09AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > > > >>What I found were 4 things in the dest dir: > > > >>1. Missing Dirs,Files. That's OK. > &

Re: XFS corruption during power-blackout

2005-07-05 Thread Sonny Rao
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 11:46:27AM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 12:30:20PM -0400, Bryan Henderson wrote: > > > For another point of reference - were these ATA (personal class) or > > SCSI (commercial class) drives or both? > > IDE were Maxtor some old Maxtor 60GB disks a

Re: XFS corruption during power-blackout

2005-07-05 Thread Sonny Rao
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 05:05:11PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: { > On Fri, Jul 01 2005, David Masover wrote: > > Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > >On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 07:53:09AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > > > > > > > > >>What I found were 4 things in the dest dir: > > >>1. Missing Dirs,Fi

Re: files of size larger than fs size

2005-03-15 Thread Sonny Rao
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:17:52PM -0800, Max wrote: > Hello! > > I've discovered that it is possible to create files of size much larger > than partition size. > I thought that this is JFS bug, so I've filed a bugreport against it at > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4345 > Detailed

Re: jfs, special characters

2005-02-26 Thread Sonny Rao
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 08:34:39PM -0800, Frederik Eaton wrote: > Does JFS have problems with files with special characters in them? > > $ ls > ls: 04-The_Dark_Of_The_Matin?e.ogg: No such file or directory > [1]$ rm 04-The_Dark_Of_The_Matin\?e.ogg > rm: cannot lstat `04-The_Dark_Of_The_Matin?e.ogg

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] ext3 writepages for writeback mode

2005-02-14 Thread Sonny Rao
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 03:02:56PM -0500, Sonny Rao wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 04:09:46PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 15:58, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] ext3 writepages for writeback mode

2005-02-14 Thread Sonny Rao
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 04:09:46PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 15:58, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Due to lack of interesting suggestions to solve > > > mpage_writepages() -> ext3_writeback_writepage() problem, > > > I

Re: [Ext2-devel] Bufferheads & page-cache reference

2005-02-14 Thread Sonny Rao
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:30:16AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > Hi,, > > I am trying to understand interactions between filesystem pagecache > pages & bufferhead associated with them. > > I was wondering if someone could help me clarify this.. > > I see that as part of bufferheads to page a

Re: ext3 writepages ?

2005-02-10 Thread Sonny Rao
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:30:23PM -0800, Bryan Henderson wrote: > >Its possible that by doing larger > >IOs we save CPU and use that CPU to push more data ? > > This is absolutely right; my mistake -- the relevant number is CPU seconds > per megabyte moved, not CPU seconds per elapsed second. >

Re: journal start/stop in ext3_writeback_writepage()

2005-02-10 Thread Sonny Rao
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:39:05AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 08:37, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 16:18, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > > > > I am trying to understand journaling code in ext3. > > > Can some one enlighten me, why we nee

Re: ext3 writepages ?

2005-02-10 Thread Sonny Rao
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:51:42AM -0800, Bryan Henderson wrote: > >I am inferring this using iostat which shows that average device > >utilization fluctuates between 83 and 99 percent and the average > >request size is around 650 sectors (going to the device) without > >writepages. > > > >With wr

Re: ext3 writepages ?

2005-02-09 Thread Sonny Rao
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:05:21PM -0500, Bryan Henderson wrote: > >I see much larger IO chunks and better throughput. So, I guess its > >worth doing it > > I hate to see something like this go ahead based on empirical results > without theory. It might make things worse somewhere else. > > Do

Re: ext3 writepages ?

2005-02-09 Thread Sonny Rao
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 12:38:08AM -0500, Sonny Rao wrote: > On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 06:33:51PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > On Feb 03, 2005 15:50 -0500, Sonny Rao wrote: > > > Well, from what I can tell, my patch doesn't seem to make much of a > > > differenc

Re: ext3 writepages ?

2005-02-07 Thread Sonny Rao
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 06:33:51PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Feb 03, 2005 15:50 -0500, Sonny Rao wrote: > > Well, from what I can tell, my patch doesn't seem to make much of a > > difference in write throughput other than allowing multi-page bios to > > be sen

Re: ext3 writepages ?

2005-02-03 Thread Sonny Rao
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 07:51:37AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 12:19, Sonny Rao wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:32:04AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I forgot the reason why we don't have ext3_write

Re: ext3 writepages ?

2005-02-03 Thread Sonny Rao
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 08:56:50AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 09:00, Sonny Rao wrote: > > > > > Well it seems to work, here's my (rather ugly) patch. > > I'm doing some performance comparisons now. > > > >

Re: mpage writepage question

2005-02-03 Thread Sonny Rao
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 08:37:19AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > I was wondering why mpage_writepage() is only "static" ? > > Is the expectation that, filesystems use > > .writepage == block_full_write_page > .writepages == mpage_writepages > > ? I am little confu

Re: ext3 writepages ?

2005-02-03 Thread Sonny Rao
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 07:51:37AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 12:19, Sonny Rao wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:32:04AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I forgot the reason why we don't have ext3_write

Re: ext3 writepages ?

2005-02-02 Thread Sonny Rao
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:32:04AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > Hi, > > I forgot the reason why we don't have ext3_writepages() ? > I can dig through to find out, but it would be easy to ask > people. > > Please let me know. Badari, I seem to have successfully hacked the writeback mode to us

Re: Advice sought on how to lock multiple pages in ->prepare_write and ->writepage

2005-02-01 Thread Sonny Rao
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 05:32:31PM -0800, Bryan Henderson wrote: > Thanks for the numbers, though there are enough variables here that it's > hard to make any hard conclusions. I agree, I just throught the data was interesting. > When I've seen these comparisons in the past, it turned out to b

Re: Advice sought on how to lock multiple pages in ->prepare_write and ->writepage

2005-01-31 Thread Sonny Rao
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 03:46:15PM -0800, Bryan Henderson wrote: > To get multi-page bios (in any natural way), you need to throw out not > only the generic file read/write routines, but the page cache as well. > > Every time I've looked at multi-page bios, I've been unable to see any > reason