fsck in -current
Scott Long
scottl at freebsd.org
Sun May 16 10:13:56 PDT 2004
Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (May 16), Scott Long said:
>
>>Actually, bgfsck unconditionally inserts a delay into every 8th i/o
>>operation to try to keep from saturating the disks. Unfortunately
>>this isn't terribly sophisticated and it results in bgfsck taking an
>>eternity whether the system is idle, loaded, or reniced.
>
>
> See http://dan.allantgroup.com/FreeBSD/fsck_ffs.diff for a patch that
> removes the delay if it's at the minimum value, and more fairly
> calculates disk wait time. This cuts bgfsck time from ~4 hours to 20
> minutes on my 36gb /usr.
>
Looks like a reasonable fix. Do you want it reviewed and committed?
Scott
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