From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id n1CM8wlS088132 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:08:58 -0600 Received: from ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id DDC821925B4A for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:08:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net [203.16.214.146]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id QXWZB9qfyiMKvsIZ for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:08:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:08:03 +1100 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: xfs preallocation timeout Message-ID: <20090212220803.GU8830@disturbed> References: <200902111522.11987@zmi.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200902111522.11987@zmi.at> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Michael Monnerie Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 03:22:11PM +0100, Michael Monnerie wrote: > Does /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs influence the maximum time XFS > takes before the "in-memory but not on disk" preallocation actually > starts writing to disk? Yes. BTW, you are referring to "delayed allocation", not "pre-allocation". Pre-allocation is the act of immediately allocating space on disk without writing data; delayed allocation is avoiding allocation until the data is to be written to disk... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs