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 p99EkQsr107606 for ; Sun, 9 Oct 2011 09:46:27 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 7FEDB55E0E2 for ; Sun, 9 Oct 2011 07:46:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.166.109.252]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id SjE9LNxWziOGd2JJ for ; Sun, 09 Oct 2011 07:46:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 10:46:17 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Premature "No Space left on device" on XFS Message-ID: <20111009144616.GA3605@infradead.org> References: <4E8E079B.4040103@birkenwald.de> <20111007013711.GW3159@dastard> <4E8F0385.7060906@birkenwald.de> <20111007231410.GG3159@dastard> <4E90422E.3060805@birkenwald.de> <20111008131809.GB25855@infradead.org> <20111008223404.GM3159@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111008223404.GM3159@dastard> 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: Bernhard Schmidt , xfs@oss.sgi.com On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 09:34:04AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > Just bear in mind that this can result in all inodes being allocated > in the same AG, thereby serialising all future file creation and > deletion in the filesystem. If you take this route, using a directory > hashing scheme is, IMO, absolutely necessary. Only if you preallocate all inodes in the same directory, else you get them spread around. But either way the hashing scheme probably is the much better idea. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs