Re: [PATCH] xfs: remove "no-allocation" reservations for file creations

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On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 01:22:13PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Looks ok... but is there a xfstest somewhere that can be coaxed into
> reproducing this?

The QA team that reported this to me required multiple hours to reproduce
it.  I think the key is heavy metadata ops in a full fs, but all my
simple attempts to reproduce it failed.

> I'm looking at what this code does and have been
> wondering why it even tries this weird workaround in the first place?

I think this dates to the time where we weren't very strict about
transaction space reservations - it basically plays lose when near
enospc at the cost of rarely shutting down the whole file system
due to a dirty transaction.
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