Re: Invoke GC by user?

[Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>]

Hello,

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:47:29AM -0500, Jun He wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I understand that "F2FS does cleaning both on demand and in the
> background. On-demand cleaning is triggered when there are not enough
> free segments to serve VFS calls". Is there any way to start GC to
> clean all garbage even when the free segments are enough?

There are two ways.
1. mount option: -o background_gc=sync
  This will invoke forground gc instead of background one periodically.

2. ->ioctl(F2FS_IOC_GARBAGE_COLLECT)
  This can invoke one round of forground or background gc by user directly.
 
Thanks,

> 
> Thanks,
> Jun
> 
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