From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id n2G9EVZI080718 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:14:52 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id C363A19C326 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:14:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [18.85.46.34]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id fwih9EYgllGUvPbf for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:14:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:14:10 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] [XFS] Flush delayed allcoation blocks on ENOSPC in create Message-ID: <20090316091410.GD2636@infradead.org> References: <1237116707-25793-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <1237116707-25793-5-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1237116707-25793-5-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> 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: Dave Chinner Cc: mpatocka@redhat.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:31:46PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > If we are creating lots of small files, we can fail to get > a reservation for inode create earlier than we should due to > EOF preallocation done during delayed allocation reservation. > Hence on the first reservation ENOSPC failure flush all the > delayed allocation blocks out of the system and retry. > > This fixes the last commonly triggered spurious ENOSPC issue > that has been reported. Looks good. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs