On 8/17/17 3:11 PM, Sander van Schie wrote: > > On 17-08-17 19:45, Eric Sandeen wrote: ... >> recent xfsprogs v4.12 has a new option to freesp, to specify alignment filters, >> i.e. >> >> xfs_db> freesp -A 32 >> will show only 32-block aligned free extents. >> >> You may not have that recent of xfsprogs, but you could check out the git >> tree from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfsprogs-dev.git, build >> it, and run xfs_db from within the tree, i.e. >> >> # db/xfs_db -c "freesp -A 32 -s" /dev/vdc1 >> >> Can you provide that output? >> >> -Eric >> > > Thank you for the explanation! > > The output of the command is as follows: > > # db/xfs_db -c "freesp -A 32 -s" /dev/vdc1 > from to extents blocks pct > 1 1 1 1 0,00 > 2 3 7 21 0,01 > 4 7 235 970 0,24 > 8 15 130 1313 0,33 > 16 31 14214 397375 99,42 So, I think that's the problem: There are no 32-block aligned free regions of 32 blocks length or greater. (now that I think about it, the -A filter filters on free extents /starting/ on that alignment; I don't know if the inode allocator can make use of, say, a 64 block free extent which /overlaps/ an aligned 32-block range... hm) Out of curiosity, what was the reason for 2k inodes? -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html