From: Carsten Aulbert <carsten.aulbert@aei.mpg.de>
To: Michal Soltys <nozo@drutsystem.com>,
david@fromorbit.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Map a disk LBA to filename?
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:11:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4906BB32.8080403@aei.mpg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081027233516.GG4985@disturbed>
Hi Dave et al
Dave Chinner wrote:
> Blockget - yes it will. It just does the traversal internally to
> build the mapping. With large filesystems xfs_db can run out of
> memory building the mapping, which is why I've used the
> explicit traverse+xfs_bmap method in the past....
How expensive is this operation (rule of thumb)? We will mostly use this
on compute nodes where the partition is 500-750 GB large and the node
has 8 GB of memory. For the simple test where I apparently hit thin air
I have not seen anything bad in terms of memory consumption.
Cheers
Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-28 7:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-27 11:20 Map a disk LBA to filename? Carsten Aulbert
2008-10-27 11:49 ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-27 12:31 ` Carsten Aulbert
2008-10-27 13:03 ` Michal Soltys
2008-10-27 13:54 ` Carsten Aulbert
2008-10-27 15:56 ` Michal Soltys
2008-10-27 23:35 ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-28 7:11 ` Carsten Aulbert [this message]
2008-10-28 7:21 ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-28 7:38 ` Carsten Aulbert
2008-10-28 7:52 ` KELEMEN Peter
2008-10-28 9:14 ` Carsten Aulbert
2008-10-28 9:38 ` KELEMEN Peter
2008-10-28 9:52 ` Justin Piszcz
2008-10-30 5:23 ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-28 9:51 ` Michal Soltys
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