Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > What I would suggest is doing an xfsdump to a filesystem on another LUN > or machine, expand the size of this LUN by 50% or more (I gather this > is an external RAID), format it appropriately, then xfsrestore. This > will eliminate your current free space fragmentation, and the 50% size > increase will delay the next occurrence of this problem. If you can't > expand the LUN, simply do the xfsdump/format/xfsrestore, which will > give you contiguous free space. Maybe the new dm thin provisioning could help here? But it might just move the fragmentation from the filesystem to the device mapper layer. I did not yet check the implementation details of the new thin provisioning target. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
