On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > Thin-provisioned devices have the ability to set a 'soft threshold', which > is triggered if the real free space for this device is beyond this mark. > > The intention behind this is to allow the system to induce some garbage > collection with possibly freeing up unused space. > > Initially it would be possible to execute garbage collection on filesystems > (eg for btrfs). > > However, as this concept applies to other areas within the kernel > (like dm-thinp or even btrfs itself) it might be an idea to have > a general mechanism / error handling etc in place. > > I would like to discuss at LSF the possible implementations > and handling mechanism for this kind of failure scenarios. Count me in too -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
