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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

  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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