Re: [PATCH next] ocfs2: Reduce object size of mlog uses

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:04:18 -0700 Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@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.