Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:48:51 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [EXT3/JBD] Periodic journal flush not enough? |
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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.
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