Re: unable to use xfs_repair

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 11:21, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > OK, I went and had a look, and we are actually as efficient as we can 
> > be in use of the memory itself. Only problem is that we allocate 4 times
> > what we use. I fixed this in cvs.
> 
> Unless you memset it (=actually using, not allocating) and it still
> fits into the 32big address space that could be worked around by
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory 

It uses all the memory, 4 bits per filesystem block, we record what
type of information is in that part of the fs - including free blocks.

Steve

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