[FAQ v2] XFS speculative preallocation

Brian Foster bfoster at redhat.com
Mon Apr 7 14:58:20 CDT 2014


On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 09:08:59PM +0200, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
> On Monday 07 of April 2014, Brian Foster wrote:
> 
> > Q: How can I speed up or avoid delayed removal of speculative
> > preallocation?
> > 
> > A:
> > 
> > Remove the inode from the VFS cache or unmount the filesystem to remove
> > speculative preallocations associated with an inode.
> 
> "Remove all inodes from the VFS cache" + ? AFAIK there is no way to remove 
> single inode from cache. Example would be nice, too.
> 

Yeah, that's confusing. If people prefer this bit to stay (I prefer to
nuke it, as noted in my previous reply), then I'll have to word it more
accurately and cautiously. Thanks.

Brian

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