From: Linda Walsh <xfs@tlinx.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.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: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 20:44:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FF11925.10301@tlinx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120702033014.GP19223@dastard>
Well, in my case, may be a while, it is usually every few months when I
clear out about 30% of a large (~11T) volume on my backup disk...
It only grows slowly as I make backups on it...then I delete maybe ...
60-100 files worth of backups (xfsdumps)....but for me dropping
the cache did work so it may not be the same problem.
Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 09:33:23AM +0200, Emmanuel Florac wrote:
>> Le Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:33:02 +1000 vous écriviez:
>>
>>> As ben said, the last reference has to go away before the space is
>>> freed. lsof is your friend.
>> I just had the same problem recently, but lsof reported zero open files
>> on the volume. umount/mount worked though, I didn't thought the cache
>> trick would be enough.
>
> I think that we need a reproducable test case for this issue before
> we'll be able to make any progress on it, then....
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
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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
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 [this message]
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