Heikki Hannikainen wrote: > Hi, > > This is slightly cosmetic, but easy to fix... > > blocks on device 10241432 > 2171432 blocks marked used in on disk bitmap > Pass 0 - 0% left 2171431, > ...20%...40%... left 972684, 4191 /sec > > While running reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on a largish and relatively fast > disk under an xterm-variant and X, it makes the host computer use pretty > much of CPU time by updating the progress line very often. This would also > be a problem on a slow serial console or dial-up connection (there are a > few times i've created large vxfs filesystems over a 9600 bit/s serial > console on an otherwise new and fast server). > > Could you please > > 1) make a -q option to make the utils quiet (to disable the very > often-updated status displays)
It has -q already. What is version of reiserfsck you have? > > 2) make the status displays update less often (say, once per second, or > once every 100 or 1000 items - just a one-liner, if (items % 100 == 0) > then print the status line... > ok, after we have no other problems with reiserfsprogs. Thanks, vs
