Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:47:41 +0900 | From | Tachino Nobuhiro <> | Subject | Re: ramfs leak |
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Hello,
At Fri, 9 Nov 2001 15:40:43 -0500 (EST), W Christopher Martin wrote: > > Padraig Brady writes: > > When I remove files from a ramfs the space is not reclaimed? > > What am I doing wrong? Details below. > > Nothing. We've noticed the same thing. It's a bug and was > first reported back in July, but no one has provided a fix yet. > I've had a brief look at the source code, but nothing obvious > pops out at me.
I think you should use tmpfs instead of ramfs, but if you really want to use ramfs, the patch below may fix the problem.
diff -Nur linux-2.4.13-ac7.org/fs/ramfs/inode.c linux-2.4.13-ac7/fs/ramfs/inode.c --- linux-2.4.13-ac7.org/fs/ramfs/inode.c Mon Nov 12 11:00:47 2001 +++ linux-2.4.13-ac7/fs/ramfs/inode.c Mon Nov 12 11:26:40 2001 @@ -182,12 +182,9 @@ { struct ramfs_sb_info *rsb = RAMFS_SB(inode->i_sb); - if (! Page_Uptodate(page)) - return; - lock_rsb(rsb); - - ClearPageDirty(page); + if (Page_Uptodate(page)) + ClearPageDirty(page); rsb->free_pages++; inode->i_blocks -= IBLOCKS_PER_PAGE; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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