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Message-ID: <8739onro1q.fsf@sycorax.lbl.gov>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:25:05 -0800
From: Alex Romosan <romosan@...orax.lbl.gov>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs used disk space bug in 2.6.38-rc1 (commit 6e857567dbbfe14dd6cc3f7414671b047b1ff5c7)
Alex Romosan <romosan@...orax.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.
--alex--
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