Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jul 2004 09:39:21 -0500 | From | "Jeffrey E. Hundstad" <> | Subject | Re: 4K stack kernel get Oops in Filesystem stress test |
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Steve Lord wrote:
> Don't use 4K stacks and XFS. What you hit here is a path where the > filesystem is getting full and it needs to free some reserved space > by flushing cached data which is using reserved extents. Reserved > extents do not yet have an on disk address and they include a > reservation for the worst case metadata usage. Flushing them will > get you room back. > > As you can see, it is a pretty deep call stack, most of XFS is going > to work just fine with a 4K stack, but there are end cases like > this one which will just not fit.
If this is a known truth with XFS maybe it would be a good idea to have 4K stacks and XFS be an impossible combination using the config tool.
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