From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Rohner Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] nilfs-utils: cldconfig add an option to set minimal free blocks Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:53:31 +0100 Message-ID: <52DE89EB.6010200@gmx.net> References: <22b5b3ac403052d3044dc8c1bebe323191376c03.1390310509.git.andreas.rohner@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <22b5b3ac403052d3044dc8c1bebe323191376c03.1390310509.git.andreas.rohner-hi6Y0CQ0nG0@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nilfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-nilfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org On 2014-01-21 14:59, Andreas Rohner wrote: > With this option the user can specify the minimal number of free/dead > blocks before a segment can be cleaned. This is a threshold for the GC > to prevent needless moving of data. If there are less free blocks > to gain from cleaning a segment than the specified number, the GC will > abort and try again with a different segment. Come to think of it, "blocks" is not a good unit. Maybe I should change that to "% of a segment" and/or "KB/MB". It shouldn't be hard... Regards, Andreas Rohner -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html