of course i had already tried -p 0 and also -p 1, in case 0 had some special meaning ^_^ thank you! -alessandro- Here i am, A young man, A crashing computer program, Here is a pen, write out my name. On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 03:00, Ryusuke Konishi <ryusuke@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 13:49:47 -0700, Alessandro Salvatori wrote: >> Hello, >> >> my root nilfs2 filesystem filled and trying and editing >> /etc/nilfs_cleanerd.conf resulted in an empty file. >> >> I started the cleanerd but it wasn't freeing up any space. >> Then I converted all of my snapshots back onto checkpoints and removed >> all of my checkpoints. >> >> still nothing. > > Did you try '-p' option? > > nilfs_cleanerd tries to protect recent checkpoints within the period > specified with "protection_period" parameter. > > It is set to one hour by default. So, the effect of converting > snapshots back to checkpoints will not appear soon. > > But, you can shorten this period by using the '-p' option for > emergency. > >> Then I created a new nilfs_cleanerd.conf with sensible values in my >> home directory and pointed nilfs_cleanerd to that. >> >> and finally it worked!!! >> >> maybe nilfs_cleanerd could default to some minimum of -say- the least >> between some small amount of gigabytes and some small percentage of >> the disk size as the minimum space to free if no setting is found in >> the configuration file? > > The current nilfs_cleanerd.conf has keyword 'min_clean_segments' to > specify percentage of minimum free space, but the effect of > protection_period is prior to that. > > So, adding another parameter sounds worth considering as you pointed > out. > > For instance, > > emerg_clean_segments 5% # override protection_period > min_clean_segments 10% > max_clean_segments 20% > > Am I on the right track? > > Thanks, > Ryusuke Konishi > >> thank you! >> -alessandro- >> Here i am, A young man, >> A crashing computer program, >> Here is a pen, write out my name. >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
