From: "Fong Vang" <sudoyang@gmail.com>
To: nscott@aconex.com
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs_check running out of memory
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 16:23:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4f52331f0804031623hc880b03i90f1eed342e97f3c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1207264560.21048.153.camel@edge.scott.net.au>
good to know. Doesn't xfs_check also repair? with xfs_repair -n, this
doesn't do any repair. SO the right approach on big volumes would be to run
xfs_repair -n first to detect problem then xfs_repair to fix?
thank you for the info. much appreciated. just, curious. where did you
get this info?
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Nathan Scott <nscott@aconex.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 16:11 -0700, Fong Vang wrote:
> >
> > if that's the case then why is it running out of memory? This is a
> > 6.5TB file systems with millions of files. The system has 24GB of
> > RAM. It needs to hold everything in memory?
>
> xfs_check has 3 per-fs-block arrays that are held all in memory, IIRC.
> Use xfs_repair -n, which has been revamped to scale a whole lot better
> than check.
>
> --
> Nathan
>
>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-03 22:56 xfs_check running out of memory Fong Vang
2008-04-03 23:03 ` Nathan Scott
2008-04-03 23:11 ` Fong Vang
2008-04-03 23:16 ` Nathan Scott
2008-04-03 23:23 ` Fong Vang [this message]
2008-04-03 23:33 ` Nathan Scott
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