On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 02:01:25AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > It did for me in all cases. Should it be taking long enough to trigger
> > the softlock timeout to do this? The size of the device is approx 280gig.
>
> It's a bit of a worry if it's taking all that time to shoot down 4g of
> pagecache. The 280G will affect things - the radix-tree will be sparse and
> the invalidate has firther to walk. But still...
Yeah. I would've thought that legitimate usage would not trigger such
things, which is why I have it on whilst I'm building this box up.
> I assume that a fsck does the same thing?
Just did an e2fsck and it did the same thing.
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