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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] xfs: account for per-AG reservation in statfs f_blocks
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 08:42:50 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171101214250.GS5858@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171101211642.GK4911@magnolia>

On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 02:16:42PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
> 
> Since the blocks reserved by the per-AG reservation mechanism are never
> available to userspace, there's no point in reporting them via statfs.
> Reduce the number of blocks reported by statfs so our space accounting
> works the way it did in the old days -- f_blocks is the theoretical
> upper bound on the amount of space that user programs could allocate,
> and f_blocks is the current maximum.
> 
> This eliminates the regression where you format a 100T XFS and df
> reports 2T are already "used".  Now it reports that you have a 98T
> filesystem.
> 
> (Dave's thinp rfc might very well fix this whole problem; this is
> purely a bandaid to shut down the complaints.)

Yes, it does. These two patches from the series can stand alone,
though I've renamed the variables I used as a result of discussion
with Brian and Amir. If you want to take these instead, I'll post my
updated patches for you:

https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-xfs/msg12211.html
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-xfs/msg12215.html

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-01 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-01 21:16 [RFC PATCH] xfs: account for per-AG reservation in statfs f_blocks Darrick J. Wong
2017-11-01 21:42 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2017-11-01 22:50   ` Darrick J. Wong

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