| To: | Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: xfs preallocation timeout |
| From: | Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:08:03 +1100 |
| Cc: | xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | <200902111522.11987@xxxxxx> |
| Mail-followup-to: | Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| References: | <200902111522.11987@xxxxxx> |
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 03:22:11PM +0100, Michael Monnerie wrote: > Does /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs influence the maximum time XFS > takes before the "in-memory but not on disk" preallocation actually > starts writing to disk? Yes. BTW, you are referring to "delayed allocation", not "pre-allocation". Pre-allocation is the act of immediately allocating space on disk without writing data; delayed allocation is avoiding allocation until the data is to be written to disk... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx |
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