Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753394Ab1DOQlG (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:41:06 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:48412 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752947Ab1DOQlE (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:41:04 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Holger Hoffstaette" Subject: 2.6.38.3 leaking disk space of files created via NFS Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:40:43 +0200 Organization: The Fists of the White Lotus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5086ddb6.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Pan/0.13.91 (Before we let euphoria convince us we are free) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 965 Lines: 18 It seems that 2.6.38.3 is still having pretty severe problems with NFS. Files that were created/written (or only read?) via NFS can be deleted from the server (after unmounting the client), but the disk space is not freed. More precisely it's Gentoo's /usr/portage/distfiles on ext4 and clients save downloaded package tarballs there. There are no stale .nfsXX files or open file handles; the disk space is returned after a reboot of the server, which is obviously not really an option. I do get a message about deleted orphan inodes on reboot. Is this a known problem? Sorry if this is a bit vague but I can't constantly reboot the server for experiments. Anyone else who can observe this problem? thanks, Holger -- 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/