From: Linda Walsh <xfs@tlinx.org>
To: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Strange case of deleting lots of files and "df" not recognizing it....(unless I umount/mount) the disk...
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:05:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE8EEB8.7000101@tlinx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120625224554.GQ10196@sgi.com>
Ben Myers wrote:
>
> Yeah. 13 hours is a long time, esp for something you just removed. ;)
>
> Fortunately it's not the data that is cached, it's probably just a pesky dentry
> hanging around on the lru with a single reference on the inode keeping it
> active, preventing xfs from freeing up the blocks.
>
> I've had some luck on v3.0 with the following patch... it's not yet tested on
> 3.5 so YMMV. Are you running an NFS server? Something that often creates
> anonymous dentries?
----
nfs server is running but no clients (usage=rare)
samba server is running and has clients (usage=24/7)...
I wasn't even able to compile the last kernel I tried...my release has been
a bit screwey...
finally got perl to compile, that was another thorn in my side...
(when it rains it pours....)
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-25 5:58 Strange case of deleting lots of files and "df" not recognizing it....(unless I umount/mount) the disk Linda Walsh
2012-06-25 7:02 ` Emmanuel Florac
2012-06-25 20:51 ` Ben Myers
2012-06-25 22:08 ` Linda Walsh
2012-06-25 22:45 ` Ben Myers
2012-06-25 23:05 ` Linda Walsh [this message]
2012-06-26 2:33 ` Dave Chinner
2012-06-26 7:33 ` Emmanuel Florac
2012-07-02 3:30 ` Dave Chinner
2012-07-02 3:44 ` Linda Walsh
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