From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id q623iiab155387 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2012 22:44:45 -0500 Received: from Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (ishtar.tlinx.org [173.164.175.65]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id kfrHbb6hMOAr1whJ (version=TLSv1 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 01 Jul 2012 20:44:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FF11925.10301@tlinx.org> Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 20:44:37 -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> <20120626023302.GD19223@dastard> <20120626093323.3cb0cc18@galadriel.home> <20120702033014.GP19223@dastard> In-Reply-To: <20120702033014.GP19223@dastard> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Dave Chinner Cc: xfs-oss 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 =E9criviez: >> >>> 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. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs