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Re: Possible xfs log problem

To: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Possible xfs log problem
From: "Andi Kleen" <ak@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 22:37:42 +0200
Cc: "William L. Jones" <jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <200008031947.OAA11791@jen.americas.sgi.com>; from lord@sgi.com on Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 02:47:38PM -0500
References: <jones@tacc.cc.utexas.edu> <200008031947.OAA11791@jen.americas.sgi.com>
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On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 02:47:38PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> Right, sorry for not getting back to you on this one - we still have work
> to do in making XFS robust against memory failures, and in this case we
> could just back off to a smaller buffer size and try again - the 128K buffer
> is already half the size used on Irix.

Can't you just use vmalloc for this case ? 

-Andi

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