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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [EXT3/JBD] Periodic journal flush not enough?
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:48:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040326154851.7a3ad417.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040326231958.GA484@gondor.apana.org.au>

Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
>
> I've encountered a problem with the journal flush timer.  The problem
> is that when a filesystem is short on space, relying on a timer-based
> flushing mechanism is no longer adequate.  For example, on my P4 2GHz
> I can trigger an ENOSPC error by doing
> 
> while :; do echo test > a; [ -s a ] || break; rm a; done; echo Out of space
> 
> on an ext3 file system with 12Mb of free space using the usual 5s
> journal flush timer.

I cannot reproduce this.  Please send more details.  Journalling mode,
kernel version, etc.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-26 23:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-26 23:19 Herbert Xu
2004-03-26 23:48 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-03-27  0:01   ` Herbert Xu
2004-03-29 18:56   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2004-03-29 19:16     ` Chris Mason
2004-03-26 23:55 ` Andreas Dilger
2004-03-29 20:03   ` Stephen C. Tweedie

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