I would suggest mount -t aufs -o remount /vid/00/logs
Maybe it will help. Tomas M On Mon, September 24, 2007 12:21 pm, Matt Jarvis wrote: > Hi > > > I am using aufs for a project, and have some issue with reported disk > space usage. I use aufs between a tmpfs set at 50MB, and a directory on an > iscsi server, with the mount point also being another directory on the > iscsi server. We have an application which writes log files into the aufs > mount point ( which are written into the tmpfs part of the aufs ), and then > I have a seperate application which copies down the logfiles from > the tmpfs into the bottom layer of the aufs, and then deletes the copy from > the tmpfs. My problem is that the aufs mount seems to do some cacheing so > that over time the tmpfs fills up. Even when I stop the application and > remove all files from the tmpfs, it still shows as having disk space used, > until I unmount and remount the aufs. It takes a long time to fill up, > perhaps 3-4 days of operation, so the amount of data is small. > > My mount options are > > > mount -t aufs -o dirs=/vid/ram/00:/vid/00/logs_rw udba=reval /vid/00/logs > > Can you tell me why the disk space shows as being used, and if there is > something I can do to ensure these caches are cleared ? > > Thanks > > > Matt > -- > Matt Jarvis > Probability Services Ltd. > > > Office : 0870 8610579 > Mobile : 07983 725372 > web : www.probabilityservices.co.uk > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/
