Re: weirdness in reiserfs

[Nikita Danilov]

Matt Bernstein writes:
 > I have a 240GB reiserfs ataraid partition on one of my servers (2.4.9-ac10
 > + ext3 0.9.9 + ext3 speedup + ext3 "experimental VM patch" + jfs 1.0.4),
 > which I had populated with lots of little files, probably huge amounts of
 > tail-packing going on.
 > 
 > I deleted a tarball of one of my directories; I forget how big the file
 > was, but I reckon it was of the order of 25GB. It took long enough (over
 > an hour) that I went to the pub with fingers crossed instead of nursing
 > it. While it was deleting vmstat 1 was showing bi= ~ 2000 and bo= ~ 20000,
 > so it was hammering away. Fine, I thought, it's a big file; I don't do
 > this sort of thing often, maybe the stuff needed to delete such a big file
 > is bigger than the journal size or something. But.. the partition was
 > otherwise inaccessible with processes just blocking. Oddly df worked
 > though, so I could watch my use of the filesystem going down!

Were there reiserfs-related messages in the kernel log?

 > 
 > So.. I came back in this morning and things had recovered. Weird. Could
 > the "experimental VM patch" mentioned on the ext3 for 2.4 page be a little
 > too experimental? Sorry to be so vague...
 > 
 > Matt

Nikita.

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