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Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

Posted Mar 13, 2009 18:26 UTC (Fri) by oak (subscriber, #2786)
In reply to: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem by droundy
Parent article: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

> It'd be even nicer if lots of people were to stress-test their ext4 file
systems by simply repeatedly hitting the hard reset button, but it's hard
to see how to motivate people to do this.

If you have very small children, they can do it for you. When you least
want/expect it...

Anyway, it's not so hard to do an automated system for this and you can
also buy one. All the file system maintainers I know, do this kind of
testing.


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Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

Posted Mar 14, 2009 18:03 UTC (Sat) by dkite (guest, #4577) [Link]

Used to be when the reset buttons were red and prominent. I speak from
experience.

Derek

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