So, if I have a partition that is a certain size and is holding my
external journal, I'm cool? What happens when it fills up, does this hose
my fs or is there a mechanism to deal with that?
Craig
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 07:56:59AM -0500, Joe Bacom wrote:
>
> > Hopefully this is an easy question. I would like to know how to
> > determine the amount of usage / free space that is left in the
> > journal. I have several filesytems that make heavy use of extended
> > attributes, so I would like to monitor the journal space to ensure
> > that I don't try to overfill it.
>
> You can't overfill it --- worst case is that it will block and flush
> to disk when 'full'. In the xfsprogs distribution there is a perl
> script to parse and pretty-print /proc/fs/xfs which you can use to get
> some idea of how often this happens.
>
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>
> --cw
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Craig Soucie
BlackGlass Inc.
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