From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id q5PN5Xcb033994 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:05:33 -0500 Message-ID: <4FE8EEB8.7000101@tlinx.org> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:05:28 -0700 From: Linda Walsh MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Strange case of deleting lots of files and "df" not recognizing it....(unless I umount/mount) the disk... References: <4FE7FDF4.6080506@tlinx.org> <20120625090211.3c5c2032@galadriel.home> <20120625205128.GA29979@sgi.com> <4FE8E14F.3080807@tlinx.org> <20120625224554.GQ10196@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20120625224554.GQ10196@sgi.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Ben Myers Cc: xfs-oss 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....) _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs