Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758089Ab1COQCT (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:02:19 -0400 Received: from dd8000.kasserver.com ([85.13.132.92]:38929 "EHLO dd8000.kasserver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758016Ab1COQCS (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:02:18 -0400 Message-ID: <4D7F8C53.7000705@gmx.net> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:57:07 +0100 From: Otto Meier User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101206 SUSE/3.1.7 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Chinner CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [regression]2.6.38-rc6 with XFS still does consume all free space References: <4D63A9E7.3000803@gmx.net> <20110301035101.GH3087@dastard> In-Reply-To: <20110301035101.GH3087@dastard> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1641 Lines: 47 Am 01.03.2011 04:51, schrieb Dave Chinner: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 01:19:51PM +0100, Otto Meier wrote: >> Hello, >> on my System a "make modules_install" with kernel 2.6.38-rc6 has eaten up >> all free Space on a XFS partition. > Are you building the 2.6.38-rc6 kernel on some other kernel or are > you running 2.6..38-rc6? > I did build a new newer Kernel and was running 2.6.38-rc6. >> The free Space is >> >> /dev/sda6 56472984 43613692 12859292 78% / >> >> after make modules_install i get >> >> /dev/sda6 56472984 56472964 20 100% / > Had you already built the kernel, or did the make command build the > kernel and all the modules before installing them? Can you check > how much space the modules directory is actually using (i.e. using > du)? > > Also, did you get an ENOSPC error? > I had already build the kernel. >> with kernel 2.6.37.1 everything runs fine and df shows >> >> /dev/sda6 56472984 43262256 13210728 77% / >> >> any idea what is going on here? > No, all the known preallocation regressions have been fixed. can you > confirm that the kernel you are running has this commit in it? > > b8fc826 xfs: speculative delayed allocation uses rounddown_power_of_2 badly > Yes the kernel I was running had this commit. > Cheers, > > Dave. Sorry for not answering earlier, I added my comments to your questions above. Bye Otto -- 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/