On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 01:37:32AM +0200, Tarik Ceylan wrote: > Am 2018-05-15 00:57, schrieb Dave Chinner: > >On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 05:02:53PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > >> > >> > >>On 5/14/18 3:02 PM, Tarik Ceylan wrote: > >>> How can one reliably measure filesystem usage on partitions that were compiled with -m reflink=1 ? > >>> Here are some numbers i am measuring with df -h (on different partitions holding the same data): > >>> 7.7G of 36G (-b size=512 -m crc=0 ) > >>> 8.6G of 36G (-b size=4096 -m crc=1 ) > >> > >>8x larger inodes will take 8x more space, but you didn't say how many > >>inodes you have allocated. > >> > >>> 11G of 36G (-b size=1024 -m crc=1,reflink=1,rmapbt=1 -i sparse=1 ) > >>> 32G of 864G (-b size=4096 -m crc=1,reflink=1 ) > >> > >>In that last case, you have a wildly different total fs size, so > >>probably > >>no fair comparison here either. > >> > >>The reverse mapping btree also takes up space. You're turning > >>too many > >>knobs at once. ;) > > Thanks, > here's a test in which i only compare reflink=0 to reflink=1, all other > variables being the same: > > mkfs.xfs -f -m reflink=0 /dev/sdc4 > meta-data=/dev/sdc4 isize=512 agcount=4, > agsize=58687982 blks > = sectsz=512 attr=2, projid32bit=1 > = crc=1 finobt=1, sparse=0, > rmapbt=0, reflink=0 > data = bsize=4096 blocks=234751926, > imaxpct=25 > = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks > naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0 ftype=1 > log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=114624, version=2 > = sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1 > realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0 > > "df -h" shows a usage of 8.8G of 896G > > mkfs.xfs -f -m reflink=1 /dev/sdc4 > [output same as before except the reflink parameter] > 15G of 896G So the reflink code reserved ~7GB of space in the filesystem (less than 1%) for it's own reflink related metadata if it ever needs it. It hasn't used it yet but we need to make sure that it's available when the filesystem is near ENOSPC. Hence it's considered used space because users cannot store user data in that space. The change I plan to make is to reduce the user reported filesystem size rather than account for it as used space. IOWs, you'd see a filesystem size of 889G instead of 896G, but have only 8.8GB used. It means exactly the same thingi and will behave exactly the same way, it's just a different space accounting technique.... > >Also, we reserve a lot of space for reflink/rmapbt metadata that > >isn't actually used, so you're not actually using any more space > >than the "-b size=4096 -m crc=1" case. I have plans for hiding that > >reservation from users so that we don't get questions like this.... > > That should resolve my confusion. Sorry to have bothered, but it's > kind of an obvious question. It's the sort of "obvious question" which almost no-one has asked us about... :) > To get back to my original question - can i assume "df" to be a > reliable > way of measuring fs usage going forward (after the change you mention), df is reliable now, regardless of any change we make in the future. > or will specialized tools be necessary as is the case with btrfs? No - df works and it should always work. We try to learn from other people's mistakes, not just our own... :) Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
