Eric Sandeen wrote:
I was running some of the xfstests enospc tests on ext4, and they were
failing; in one case, manymanymany small files are made to fill up a
100M filesystem. ext4 stops quite early with -ENOSPC, but after a bit,
(or after a "sync") we get 40MB free again. So 40% of the fs space is
hidden somewhere in preallocation...
I tried calling out to discard group prealloc but that's only a few
blocks. I'll go trace through the sync paths to see what all gets
released, but if anyone knows offhand where the rest of that space is
hiding, please give me a shout. :)
Thanks,
-Eric
Possibly related; on a 1G filesystem, doing this:
#!/bin/bash
xfs_io -F -f -d -c 'pwrite -b 64k 0 512m' /mnt/test/io_test
rm /mnt/test/io_test
in a "while true" loop spews ENOSPC. (it's a direct IO 512m write in
64k chunks). Buffered IO seems fine ...
-Eric
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