HAMMER2 - leaking disk size

Volodymyr Kostyrko arcade at b1t.name
Thu Jan 28 12:46:42 PST 2016


Matthew Dillon wrote:
> I'm assuming it's /var/log/messages, shell .history file, or some other
> log file.  Any modification to the filesystem at all, even if it is an
> in-place modification, is going to eat space until it is garbage-collected.

Well... I wouldn't say that no other process writes to the disk, I'll 
try to recheck that. Yet I'm not talking about free space but rather 
about partition size. It's shrinking.

> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 7:57 AM, Volodymyr Kostyrko <arcade at b1t.name
> <mailto:arcade at b1t.name>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all.
>
>     Looks like no one is testing HAMMER2 at the moment. That's not fair
>     - it's a very nice FS.
>
>     What I want to share with you is constant disk size shrinking when
>     working with HAMMER2:
>
>     arcade at probe\~> df
>     Filesystem                     1K-blocks     Used     Avail Capacity
>     Mounted on
>     da1s1d at PROBE                   137685440 31287424 106398016    23%    /
>
>     arcade at probe\~> df
>     Filesystem                     1K-blocks     Used     Avail Capacity
>     Mounted on
>     da1s1d at PROBE                   137685184 31287424 106397760    23%    /
>
>     No big writes happening, no kernel messages, it just loses space.

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