50% more blocks allocated than needed

[Brian Foster]

On 01/31/2013 01:28 PM, Stefan Ring wrote:
>> I don't think so at the moment
> 
> Really? Even for closed files? I was almost sure that the space would
> be reclaimed before running out of it. I have only slightly less than
> 1 year of XFS experience though...
> 

Note that in most cases preallocation is trimmed on file close. The
repeated open-write-close cycle is what causes it to hang around longer
(until inode reclaim).

Somebody else can chime in if I'm missing something, but my
understanding is that we currently run a flush to free up reserved
metadata blocks on ENOSPC and retry. The eofblocks functionality
provides a mechanism that the out of space conditions can use to free up
preallocation, but that part is a work-in-progress.

Brian

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