On Fri, 6 Jul 2012 at 11:01, Dave Chinner wrote: > Applications can use attributes without you being aware of them. > e.g. Samba, desktop search/indexing, etc might be using attributes > even though you aren't explicitly using them.... Hm, it's some kind of server, samba is serving those mounts, but only as readonly shares. When running "getfattr -R" or "getfacl -R" on these xfs filesystems, only very few (<100) file have attribtues / ACLs set. > > 50 bytes sounds more than enought for holding only unix permissions. > Unix permissions are held in the inode core, not in the attribute > space. Even better, so I'm really at a loss what could use up this attribute space. > And i did say "typically". if you have a file that has 6-7 extents, > then there won't be any space for attributes and it will put new > attributes out of line immediately.... $ xfs_bmap foo | wc -l 933 And there are lots of files held by lots of extents, so this might be it. Thanks for this guide through this attribute business. There's currently no problem with any of the filesystems but I was tipped off by Christoph's remark about "running out of inode attributes" which got me scared a little. I understand that it might be a performance issue having to do an extra lookup for attributes, but I still fail to see how (and where) they sneaked into the fs. Christian. -- BOFH excuse #284: Electrons on a bender _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
