linux-ext4 - Re: fsck.ext4 taking months

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Date:	Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:26:54 +0200
From:	Christian Brandt <brandtc@...5.com>
To:	Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@...Wizard.nl>
CC:	Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fsck.ext4 taking months

Am 29.03.2011 08:03, schrieb Rogier Wolff:

>>> >>> Is the slow performance with lots of hard links a known issue?
> >
> > Yes, it is a known issue.

 At least its not my fault :-) thanks for the info.

> > You get to test my patch. :-)
> >
> > I strongly suspect that (just like me) sometime in the past you've
> > seen e2fsck run out of memory and were advised to enable the
> > on-disk-databases.

 Something like that... The drive has been formatted recently but a bad
controller corrupted vital information upon mount and some more on the
next fsck. I Ctrl-C pretty fast when I saw lots of rather confusing
kernel errors between fsck output. This could have left the drive in a
similiar state, couldn't it?

-- Christian Brandt

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