From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Max Veprinsky <max.veprinsky@livetext.com>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: releasing space after rapid grwoth
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:05:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110124180524.GA15056@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=R_j3_hZ-7RpSn0_Mee43nU0njPRBSn=DiEf8R@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 05:06:45PM -0600, Max Veprinsky wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to reclaim disk space on stable storage which was consumed
> by a crashed apache process at a rate of ~100GB/hour. This issue has
> happened a few times before and normally resolved by discovering a
> .nfsXXXXX file, stopping the process on the the application server
> that was holding the file. Sometimes the used filespace is recovered
> quickly without manual intervention, other times I had to delete the
> .nfsXXXX file manually.
>
> Last time this happened 3 TB of disk space was consumed and no
> .nfsXXXX file of that size was discovered, nor. I dismounted all of
> the volumes from the clients 1/2 of the space was recovered.
>
> showmount shows clients connected but there are no network nfs
> connections open to any client.
And all the clients *have* unmounted, right?
> I have not restarted nfs server
> service fearing that the used space would not be recovered.
>
> Any suggestion greatly appreciated
More details about the setup? Are clients and server all Linux, and
what kernel versions?
--b.
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2011-01-21 23:06 releasing space after rapid grwoth Max Veprinsky
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