Re: One checkpoint doesn't get GC'd

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Hi Ryusuke,


On Tuesday 15 of November 2011 17:11:02 you wrote:
> This may happen since garbage collection of nilfs is done for each
> disk segment instead of checkpoint.
> 
> If GC did not reclaim any blocks for a checkpoint, the checkpoint will
> survive transiently.

Thanks for clarification. I've always assumed that GC just removes checkpoints 
in natural order; good to see it's smarter than that ;-)

The CP got GC'd recently alright.


Cheers,
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