From: Breno Leitao <leitao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Hunter Adrian <ext-Adrian.Hunter@nokia.com>
Subject: Re: Is VFS behavior fine?
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:29:27 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <486CE247.5020904@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <486B419F.7050407@nokia.com>
Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> The result of it was that the '->delete_inode()' operation for
> the 'xxx' directory inode is not called. It is not called even
> after 'cd /'. However, if we do not do the 'touch tmp' command
> (which actually fails), '->delete_inode()' _is_ called for 'xxx'.
>
> So 'touch tmp' has a side effect. You may notice this by watching
> 'cat /proc/slabinfo | grep dentry' while running the following
> script:
I tried to reproduce this on my system using an EXT3 filesystem, leaving
the script running the entire night. When I wake up I found that the
system disk was full. So, besides the memory issue, this problem also
consume some bytes on your filesystem.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-03 14:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-02 8:51 Is VFS behavior fine? Artem Bityutskiy
2008-07-02 11:03 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-07-02 13:18 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-07-03 14:29 ` Breno Leitao [this message]
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