On 07/22/2007 03:11 AM, Theodore Tso wrote:
This is a problem. Today the CHS fields in the partition entries don't
mean much of anything anymore and Linux happily ignores them but DOS
and (hence) Windows 9x do not. From time to time I still have the
Windows 98 install that's sitting in a corner
Andrew, Neil,
The stripe-queue patches are showing solid performance improvement.
git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop md-for-linus
drivers/md/raid5.c | 1484
include/linux/raid/raid5.h | 87 +++-
2 files changed, 1164
The raid5 stripe cache object, struct stripe_head, serves two purposes:
1/ frontend: queuing incoming requests
2/ backend: transitioning requests through the cache state machine
to the backing devices
The problem with this model is that queuing decisions are directly
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 07:10:31AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
Sounds great, but it may be advisable to hook this into the partition
modification routines instead of mkfs/fsck. Which would mean that the
partition manager could ask the kernel to instruct its fs subsystem to
update the backup
Theodore Tso wrote:
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 07:10:31AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
Sounds great, but it may be advisable to hook this into the partition
modification routines instead of mkfs/fsck. Which would mean that the
partition manager could ask the kernel to instruct its fs subsystem to
On Sun, July 22, 2007 18:28, Theodore Tso wrote:
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 07:10:31AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
Sounds great, but it may be advisable to hook this into the partition
modification routines instead of mkfs/fsck. Which would mean that the
partition manager could ask the kernel to
