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From: John Lister <john.lister@kickstone.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS defragmentation issue
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 07:55:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C8B27E4.2050102@kickstone.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C8A4395.5070702@kickstone.com>

  Stan Hoeppner wrote on 9/10/2010 14:00
 >>On 10/09/2010 15:41, John Lister wrote:
 >> Hi, using ubuntu 9.04, kernel version 2.6.28-18 and xfsprog 
v2.10.2-1 I'm trying to defragment a drive. If I use xfs_db to check for 
fragmentation it shows for >>example that a file has 20k+ fragments:
 >>inode 578505506 actual 23240 ideal 1
 >>
 >>mapping the inode to the file and running xfs_frs states that the 
file is fully defragmented.
 >>
 >>Also running xfs_frs says the drive is defragmented while xfs_db for 
example reports 300k fragments.
 >>
 >>Which is right? and is it possible to defragment the file assuming it 
is fragmented so badly, if so how?

 >Try unmounting and remounting the filesystem, and see if the various
 >tools all report the same thing afterwards. This solved the exact same
 >problem for me very recently, though I'm on kernel 2.6.34.1 and xfsprogs
 >2.9.8.

Cheers, that got rid of most of it, there is still a slight discrepency  
(50 extra fragments) which I can live with.

John

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-11  6:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-10 14:41 XFS defragmentation issue John Lister
2010-09-10 19:00 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-09-11  6:55 ` John Lister [this message]
2010-09-11  8:23   ` Dave Chinner
2010-09-11  8:25     ` John Lister
2010-09-11 19:38     ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-09-11 19:57       ` Iustin Pop
2010-09-12  1:01         ` Dave Chinner
2010-09-12  8:43       ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-09-12  9:45         ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-09-13  8:05       ` Roel van Meer

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