From: Jan Derfinak <ja@mail.upjs.sk>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: ENOSPC at 90% with plenty of inodes
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:52:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CB46828.2030104@mail.upjs.sk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101012102954.GQ4681@dastard>
Dave Chinner wrote:
>> If so, could/should the OP specify anything
>> during the mkfs.xfs reformat that may help alleviate or mitigate his
>> problem in the future?
>
> No. These problems usually appear in filesystems that have run at
> greater than 85-90% full for extended periods of time without being
> emptied at all. Once you start to free up space, it naturally
> defragments itself, but if you never free up any significant amount
> of space in the filesytesm, this cannot occur and so fragmentation
> just keeps getting worse....
I'm curious if using noikeep mount option has any effect on free space
fragmentation?
jan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-12 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-08 17:17 ENOSPC at 90% with plenty of inodes James Braid
2010-10-08 20:40 ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-10-08 20:43 ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-10-08 22:51 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-11 14:03 ` James Braid
2010-10-11 22:35 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-12 1:27 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-10-12 10:29 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-12 13:52 ` Jan Derfinak [this message]
2010-10-12 23:21 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-10-13 0:25 ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-24 1:04 ` XIE Zhengmao
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2010-10-08 20:33 Richard Scobie
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