On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 18:12 +0000, Vijay Gill wrote: > > What do you mean "the problem went away"? Do you mean that the 512M > > files created under the new kernel now showed only a few bytes > > allocated, or do you mean that *new* files created under the *old* > > kernel don't have the 512M allocation? > > > > poc > > > > PS Your mailer is including the entire trailer of list messages in the > > quoted material. This is dumb and most mailers don't do it. You should > > either edit it out or consider using a different mailer. > > > > By 'the problem went away' I meant that the files were no getting 512M > allocated for them even if they were a few bytes in size. Allocated *under which kernel*? You still haven't said. If this is a genuine bug you should report it to Bugzilla, but it's essential to be clear about what's happening. > The trouble it was causing is explained in following text. > > The files in question were in /var/log and /var/run. Most of them were > very small (ranging from 5-6 bytes to a few kilo bytes). But XFS > pre-allocated 512M to them. Once XFS pre-allocates space to a file, > the free space reported decreases by the amount that is pre-allocated > and not by the actual data written into the file. If these files are > closed then XFS would report free space left correctly. Since these > files were always open, my hard disk showed only a few megabytes free > even though it was supposed to have 3.1Gb free (as reported now). > > I have a suspicion that there is another linux user facing similar > problem (he also ran out of space in /var as he said). He might be > running the latest kernel. If I remember correctly, he was talking about installing (or reinstalling) an old system, something like FC7. > As far as my mailer is concerned I am using gmail (web interface). I > try to truncate the text as much as possible and keep text from only > previous mail so that the context is clear. It is as dumb as it is I > cannot help there. Well this time you did remove the trailing material, so that's fine. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
