From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomasz Chmielewski Subject: Re: how can I copy files bigger than ~32 GB when using compress-force? Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:16:54 +0200 Message-ID: <4CAAC2D6.3010201@wpkg.org> References: <4CAA4A34.80701@wpkg.org> <20101004222837.GD9759@think> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed To: Chris Mason , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20101004222837.GD9759@think> List-ID: On 05.10.2010 00:28, Chris Mason wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 11:42:12PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >>> I'm assuming this works without compress-force? I can make a guess at >>> what is happening, the compression forces a relatively small extent >>> size, and this is making our worst case metadata reservations get upset. >> >> Yes, it works without compress-force. >> >> Interesting is that cp or rsync sometimes just exit quite fast with >> "no space left". >> >> Sometimes, they just "hang" (waited up to about an hour) - file size >> does not grow anymore, last modified time is not updated, iostat > > Sorry is this hang/fast exit with or without compress-force. It only seems to happen with compress-force. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org