From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: sparsify - utility to punch out blocks of 0s in a file
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:17:30 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F2D925A.1070702@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F2D90B6.4070008@redhat.com>
On 2/4/12 2:10 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Hm but something is weird, right after the punch-out xfs says
> it uses 84K:
>
> [root@inode sparsify]# du -hc fsfile
> 84K fsfile
> 84K total
>
> but then after an xfs_repair it looks saner:
> # du -hc fsfile
> 4.8M fsfile
> 4.8M total
>
> something to look into I guess... weird.
nvm that's just xfs_repair zeroing the log & reinstating the blocks.
Sorry for the noise - Ok, back to my Saturday.
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-04 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-04 20:04 sparsify - utility to punch out blocks of 0s in a file Eric Sandeen
2012-02-04 20:10 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-02-04 20:17 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2012-02-05 15:05 ` Raghavendra D Prabhu
2012-02-05 23:44 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-02-05 23:55 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-02-05 9:33 ` Ron Yorston
2012-02-05 16:36 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-02-05 16:55 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-02-05 17:23 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2012-02-05 17:23 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-02-05 19:24 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-02-05 17:19 ` Ron Yorston
2012-02-05 17:21 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-02-06 18:40 ` Sunil Mushran
2012-02-06 21:41 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-02-06 21:47 ` Eric Sandeen
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