From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dexen deVries Subject: Re: One checkpoint doesn't get GC'd Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:05:47 +0100 Message-ID: <201111171305.49635.dexen.devries@gmail.com> References: <201111141351.50798.dexen.devries@gmail.com> <20111116.011102.126207784.ryusuke@osrg.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:x-face :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=hxe5HalyvOjgpv2l1DT7FOCX1tcSP22LXcjb6nxjS9Q=; b=NX8fcUvSMrIVBC50QQ3ctY9yobxYosavnqgg4hKpfQtxhNZSoaco+S1+ROMF4xOFuy ZkroFMTVpUEoLRyd62YFrv4kmRwnLVGLgOIMzP3+rqUycS+5U7ElSKrbHFv+guIYK9jP 9MJiOqlyRkL9Lx+gX95DifBBgK5T9FF/VTR2Y= In-Reply-To: <20111116.011102.126207784.ryusuke-sG5X7nlA6pw@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nilfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" To: linux-nilfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Hi Ryusuke, On Tuesday 15 of November 2011 17:11:02 you wrote: > This may happen since garbage collection of nilfs is done for each > disk segment instead of checkpoint. >=20 > If GC did not reclaim any blocks for a checkpoint, the checkpoint wil= l > survive transiently. Thanks for clarification. I've always assumed that GC just removes chec= kpoints=20 in natural order; good to see it's smarter than that ;-) The CP got GC'd recently alright. Cheers, --=20 dexen deVries [[[=E2=86=93][=E2=86=92]]] ``As my friend Jacob Gabrielson once put it, advocating Object-Oriented= =20 Programming is like advocating Pants-Oriented Clothing.'' -- Steve Yegge, in http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.h= tml -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" = in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html