Is this a patch I can try?
I can build with XFS v1.2 if necessary.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Lord [mailto:lord@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 11:24 AM
To: Eric Sandeen
Cc: Mark Grimes; 'linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: Re: XFS holding onto disk memory
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 13:16, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > Is this expected behavior? Is there a way to recover the on disk memory
> > without unmounting the filesystem?
>
> XFS dynamically allocates inodes as they are requested, but they are
> never freed. Even unmounting won't get this back for you.
>
> So if you fill your disk with 0-length files, the space allocated
> for inodes will always & forever be allocated for those inodes.
>
> (compare this to ext2, where inode space is permanently allocated
> at mkfs time).
>
> You can use xfs_growfs to change the % of the disk which can be used
> for inodes, though.
>
> -Eric
And we do have freeing of inodes working in house.
Steve
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