From: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs preallocation timeout
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:35:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902131035.29407@zmi.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090212220803.GU8830@disturbed>
On Donnerstag 12 Februar 2009 Dave Chinner wrote:
> 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...
Thank you Dave. I didn't remember the correct wording. So
/proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs for XFS says how much data, but not
metadata, I could loose on kernel crash/power outage etc. No need to
worry, right?
mfg zmi
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2009-02-11 14:22 xfs preallocation timeout Michael Monnerie
2009-02-12 22:08 ` Dave Chinner
2009-02-13 9:35 ` Michael Monnerie [this message]
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