Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:44:19 +0100 (BST) | From | Matt Bernstein <> | Subject | weirdness in reiserfs |
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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!
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
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