Messages in this thread | | | From | Alex Romosan <> | Subject | Re: xfs used disk space bug in 2.6.38-rc1 (commit 6e857567dbbfe14dd6cc3f7414671b047b1ff5c7) | Date | Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:25:05 -0800 |
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Alex Romosan <romosan@sycorax.lbl.gov> writes:
> my home directory is using xfs and i noticed that when i try to compile > a program or do any kind of disk access (like git pull, etc) the amount > of space used jumps by tens of gigabytes causing the disk to seemingly > become full (eventually). on reboot the used disk space goes back to the > correct value. i did a 'git bisect start -- fs/xfs' and i tracked it > down to commit 6e857567dbbfe14dd6cc3f7414671b047b1ff5c7. if i revert > this patch then disk usage doesn't increase unexpectedly (i have 270GB > free and the disk became full by simply trying to compile wine). i can > try patches if somebody comes up with one.
actually, even with that patch reverted the disk usage still creeps up eventually so something else is not quite right.
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