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Re: Filesystem sizes

To: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Filesystem sizes
From: "Orn E. Hansen" <oe.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 22:49:33 +0200
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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sunnudagur 24. júní 2001 16:38, þú skrifaðir:
>
> How did you copy the files into XFS, are you using NFS? and which kernel
> version are you using?
>
   I'm running redhat 7.1, using a vanilla kernel 2.4.3, with the 2.4.3 core 
and kernel xfs tarballs.   XFS release 1.0.

I backup the files, using 'tar -jcf <tarball>.tar.bz2 <directory>' and untar 
them in the same way.

> I just did some quick checks and I am not seeing similar behavior. It
> appears that space preallocated into files on your system is not getting
> freed when the file closes. XFS presumes you are going to keep writing to a
> file, so tends to overallocate, but the extra space is supposed to be
> removed at close time.
>
> Also, if you unmount the filesystem, and remount it does the size increase
> persist?
>
  No, it doesn't persist... but the system is unusable.

  I unmount the directory, and the moment I remount it... the system hangs 
up.  bad(tm).  I need to reboot the system, and it will come up... some 
hassle as the file systems need to be checked, but the red hat boot script 
can't handle the xfs system, making me end up checking the file systems 
manually. 

  After that, I remount the xfs file system and it shows normal sizes.... but 
after a few minutes of running, the system hangs up again.  The same 
behaviour the kernel had, before I added ACL support into it.  The system 
continues to behave this way...  

  The file system, that contains the tarball, is also an xfs.  That file 
system has only the base directory, and file sizes are normal.  The system 
also works fine with it mounted...


Orn

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