Re: XFS holding onto disk memory

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 08:21:43PM -0600, Steve Lord wrote:

> It would yes, but we are not currently planning on offering
> facilities to clean up existing filesystems. Over time inode
> clusters would be freed, but only as inodes were allocated in them
> and freed again.

Surely getting the fs to clean up after itself wouldn't be to hard?
Something like:

  foreach ag ;
     create dir<ag_num>
     do 100k times
          create file dir<agnum>/foo<file_num>

  <pause, print pretty message or whatever>

  foreach ag ;
     do 100k times
          remove file dir<ag_num>/foo<file_num>
     rmdir dir<ag_num>

would suffice?


  --cw