Andrew Morton
2015-Apr-23 23:19 UTC
[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH next] ocfs2: Reduce object size of mlog uses
On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:04:18 -0700 Mark Fasheh <mfasheh at suse.de> wrote:> > This code needs some pretty serious rework and rethink, perhaps > > involving a change to the emitted info. I was hoping one of the ocfs2 > > developers would take the bait, but they're all in hiding. > > If it functions the same and doesn't have a major performance change, I'm > pretty sure it'll be fine. We sometimes ask customers to enable some of the > debugging if they are having an issue. I would ask that it be tested > on a live system - a local fs, no cluster or cluster config required.Is there a simpleton's guide to testing ocfs2 on a local disk? One which assumes a starting point of "knows how to type". A few paragraphs in Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt would be great - then we can point non-ocfs2 people at it when they muck with stuff.
Richard Weinberger
2015-Apr-23 23:37 UTC
[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH next] ocfs2: Reduce object size of mlog uses
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:19 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> wrote:> On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:04:18 -0700 Mark Fasheh <mfasheh at suse.de> wrote: > >> > This code needs some pretty serious rework and rethink, perhaps >> > involving a change to the emitted info. I was hoping one of the ocfs2 >> > developers would take the bait, but they're all in hiding. >> >> If it functions the same and doesn't have a major performance change, I'm >> pretty sure it'll be fine. We sometimes ask customers to enable some of the >> debugging if they are having an issue. I would ask that it be tested >> on a live system - a local fs, no cluster or cluster config required. > > Is there a simpleton's guide to testing ocfs2 on a local disk? One > which assumes a starting point of "knows how to type".See http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E41138/html/ol_crlcl_ocfs2.html -- Thanks, //richard