Messages in this thread |  | | From | Nikita Danilov <> | Date | Fri, 28 Sep 2001 18:55:00 +0400 | Subject | Re: weirdness in reiserfs |
| |
Matt Bernstein writes: > I have a 240GB reiserfs ataraid partition on one of my servers (2.4.9-ac10 > + ext3 0.9.9 + ext3 speedup + ext3 "experimental VM patch" + jfs 1.0.4), > which I had populated with lots of little files, probably huge amounts of > tail-packing going on. > > I deleted a tarball of one of my directories; I forget how big the file > was, but I reckon it was of the order of 25GB. It took long enough (over > an hour) that I went to the pub with fingers crossed instead of nursing > it. While it was deleting vmstat 1 was showing bi= ~ 2000 and bo= ~ 20000, > so it was hammering away. Fine, I thought, it's a big file; I don't do > this sort of thing often, maybe the stuff needed to delete such a big file > is bigger than the journal size or something. But.. the partition was > otherwise inaccessible with processes just blocking. Oddly df worked > though, so I could watch my use of the filesystem going down!
Were there reiserfs-related messages in the kernel log?
> > So.. I came back in this morning and things had recovered. Weird. Could > the "experimental VM patch" mentioned on the ext3 for 2.4 page be a little > too experimental? Sorry to be so vague... > > Matt
Nikita.
> > - > 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/ - 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/
|  |