Re: Linux v2.5.40 - and a feature freeze reminder

Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Tue, 1 Oct 2002 17:26:06 -0700


On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:06:07AM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:

> Indeed... And I'm trying to merge it all now into 2.5.40. Sorry
> I've been a bit slow --- testing, especially error testing when
> disks fill up, takes a long time (How long does it take to write 4
> TB to a disk? About a day with the machines I have here. Multiply
> that by three (now four with XFS) filesystems to test...)

With XFS, if you don't care about the file contents, you can create
very larges (multi-TB) non-sparse files more or less instantly.

If you want code for this, let me know and I'll hack something
together.

--cw
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