Re: suddenly slow writes on XFS Filesystem

[Martin Steigerwald <Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner:
> What I would suggest is doing an xfsdump to a filesystem on another LUN
> or machine, expand the size of this LUN by 50% or more (I gather this
> is an external RAID), format it appropriately, then xfsrestore.  This
> will eliminate your current free space fragmentation, and the 50% size
> increase will delay the next occurrence of this problem.  If you can't
> expand the LUN, simply do the xfsdump/format/xfsrestore, which will
> give you contiguous free space.

Maybe the new dm thin provisioning could help here? But it might just move 
the fragmentation from the filesystem to the device mapper layer. I did not 
yet check the implementation details of the new thin provisioning target.

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