On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 01:49:10PM -0500, Brian Foster wrote: > > Right, that can happen. But my question is this: how realistic is it > > that we have someone who has ENOSPC because of enough zero length > > files to trigger this? I've never seen an application or user try to > > store any significant number of zero length files, so I suspect this > > is a theoretical problem, not a practical one. > > > > Probably not very realistic. ;) The only thing I know that does rely on > some zero-length files is gluster distribution to represent "link files" > when one a file that hashes to one server ends up stored on another. > Even then, I don't see how we would ever have a situation where those > link files exist in such massive numbers and are removed in bulk. So > it's likely a pathological scenario. Zero data blocks are the only case for device nodes or fifos, very common for symlinks that can be stored inline, and not unusual for directories. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
