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From: Alex Romosan <romosan@sycorax.lbl.gov>
Subject: Re: xfs used disk space bug in 2.6.38-rc1 (commit
	6e857567dbbfe14dd6cc3f7414671b047b1ff5c7)
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To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> writes:

> When you quote a commit, can you please include the name of the
> commit. e.g:
>
> 6e85756 ("xfs: don't truncate prealloc from frequently accessed inodes")
>

sorry.

> Is the one with the known bug that causes excessive preallocation
> when files are zero sized. The candidate fix is here:
>
> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2011-01/msg00281.html
>
> Can you see if that solves your problem?

i've tried it and disk usage is back to normal. thanks.

--alex--

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