[OpenAFS] Re: Problem with openafs-1.3.81 on kernel 2.6.11.7

chas williams - CONTRACTOR chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Fri, 15 Apr 2005 18:42:14 -0400


In message <B2D1A1C989EB17E36B99869D@sphinx.andrew.cmu.edu>,Chaskiel M Grundman
 writes:
>It should not be necessary to call ext2_truncate to free the preallocated 
>blocks - ext2_release_file will do it.

but you seem to get these preallocated blocks if you just open a file
for writing.  so if your disk cache consists lots of tiny files you
wind up with oversubscribing the cache partition.