From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs preallocation timeout
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:08:03 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090212220803.GU8830@disturbed> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200902111522.11987@zmi.at>
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 03:22:11PM +0100, Michael Monnerie wrote:
> Does /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs influence the maximum time XFS
> takes before the "in-memory but not on disk" preallocation actually
> starts writing to disk?
Yes.
BTW, you are referring to "delayed allocation", not
"pre-allocation". Pre-allocation is the act of immediately
allocating space on disk without writing data; delayed allocation is
avoiding allocation until the data is to be written to disk...
Cheers,
Dave.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-11 14:22 xfs preallocation timeout Michael Monnerie
2009-02-12 22:08 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2009-02-13 9:35 ` Michael Monnerie
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