Hi, On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:00:09 -0700 (PDT), Eric A wrote: > Ok, thanks that makes sense. Well now that nilfs_cleanerd has been > running for about 9 hours, it is actually starting to free up some > space! It's freed up about 1GB so far of the 12GB that should be > freed. So, I suppose it is working correctly, just rather slowly.
Well, this should get fixed in the course of improvement of the garbage collector. > So, the only real problem is that it is not being started on mount, > but for now I can just manually start it. > > Eric Yes, I'd like to know why cleanerd fails or is not invoked in your (gentoo?) boot environment. > /proc/mounts: > rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 > /dev/root / nilfs2 rw,noatime 0 0 looks good to me. > The only thing I see in syslog related to nilfs: > Jul 26 12:23:50 gentoo klogd: VFS: Mounted root (nilfs2 filesystem) readonly > on device 8:2. > Jul 26 12:31:44 gentoo nilfs_cleanerd[2690]: start > Jul 26 12:31:44 gentoo nilfs_cleanerd[2690]: override protection period to 0 After nilfs was mounted readonly as above, it must have been remounted read-write, and normally cleanerd should be invoked at the time. Could you see the following points to be checked ? * if the symbolic link /dev/root points to an existent device /dev/sdxx (or /dev/hdyy) or not. * if the root entry is written in /etc/fstab as below: /dev/sdxx / nilfs2 defaults 0 0 * if mount.nilfs2 is placed in /sbin near ``/sbin/mount''. * /proc was mounted before the root nilfs is remounted read-write. Thanks, Ryusuke Konishi > ________________________________ > From: Jiro SEKIBA <[email protected]> > To: NILFS Users mailing list <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 8:35:42 PM > Subject: Re: [NILFS users] df reports used space gradually growing. > > Hi, > > > Using lscp, I see no snapshots, but several thousand checkpoints. I tried > > deleting the checkpoints with rmcp, but that didn't free up any space. The > > disk is still slowly filling. > > Unfortunately that's the way rmcp works for now. > rmcp only tells the cleanerd the checkpoint is ready to remove even > in the protection period and nilfs_cleanerd is the only process that > collect garage from the storage and create free space for new logs. > > thanks, > > regards, > -- > Jiro SEKIBA <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.nilfs.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://www.nilfs.org/mailman/listinfo/users
