Hammer fileystem disk full problem

[Tim Darby]

On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Matthew Dillon <
dillon at apollo.backplane.com> wrote:

>
> :>     hammer reblock <fs> 90
> :>
> :>     Each PFS needs to be independently reblocked.
> :>
> :>                                         -Matt
> :>
> :Thanks, Matt!  After doing just the 10% on each PFS, I had recovered
> enough
> :space to get back in operation.  I read the man page, but I'm still not
> :clear on what exactly the fill percentage does?
>
>     Basically HAMMER1 doesn't keep track of free space on a block-by-block
>     basis.  It keeps track of free space on a segment (~2MB) by segment
>     basis and iterates through the segment until it fills up.  In order
>     to free space, the segment has to become 100% empty.
>
>     By default the reblocker will reblock out of all storage segments,
>     which can temporarily require more storage during the run until it
>     sorts things out.  This is desireable for normal operation because
>     it defragments the disk quite well.  But it doesn't work well if the
>     filesystem is completely full.
>
>     Telling the reblocker to only reblock out of storage segments that
>     are underutilized has a better chance of clearing those segments
>     out and freeing them up before the reblocker would otherwise run out
>     of space.  Once things get cleaned up enough there should be enough
>     free space to run the reblocker in normal mode.
>
>                                                 -Matt
>
> That makes sense, thanks again!

Tim
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