Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:50:16 -0600 (CST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: inodes: Support generic defragmentation |
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On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Dave Chinner wrote:
> How do you expect defrag to behave when the filesystem doesn't free > the inode immediately during dispose_list()? That is, the above code > only finds inodes that are still active at the VFS level but they > may still live for a significant period of time after the > dispose_list() call. This is a real issue now that XFS has combined > the VFS and XFS inodes into the same slab...
Then the freeing of the slab has to be delayed until the objects are freed.
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