I don't know of any applications that do, although I do know of quite a few users who would expect it to work (myself included). This kind of thing could (depending on how the system in question is configured) potentially be critical for recovering from such a situation.
On 05/27/2015 02:39 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
On Wed 2015-05-27 11:28:50, Daniel Phillips wrote:
On Tuesday, May 26, 2015 11:41:39 PM PDT, Mosis Tembo wrote:
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
We identified the following quality metrics for this algorithm:
1) Never fails to detect out of space in the front end.
2) Always fills a volume to 100% before reporting out of space.
3) Allows rm, rmdir and truncate even when a volume is full.
This is definitely nonsense. You can not rm, rmdir and truncate
when the volume is full. You will need a free space on disk to perform
such operations. Do you know why?
Because some extra space needs to be on the volume in order to do the
atomic commit. Specifically, there must be enough extra space to keep
both old and new copies of any changed metadata, plus enough space for
new data or metadata. You are almost right: we can't support rm, rmdir
or truncate _with atomic commit_ unless some space is available on the
volume. So we keep a small reserve to handle those operations, which
only those operations can access. We define the volume as "full" when
only the reserve remains. The reserve is not included in "available"
blocks reported to statfs, so the volume appears to be 100% full when
only the reserve remains.
For Tux3, that reserve is variable - about 1% of free space, declining
to a minimum of 10 blocks as free space runs out. Eventually, we will
reduce the minimum a bit as we develop finer control over how free
space is used in very low space conditions, but 10 blocks is not bad
at all. With no journal and only 10 blocks of unusable space, we do
pretty well with tiny volumes.
Yeah. Filesystem that could not do rm on full filesystem would be
braindead.
Now, what about
1) writing to already-allocated space in existing files?
I mentioned earlier, it seems to work pretty well in Tux3. But do user
applications really expect it to work? I do not know of any, perhaps
you do.
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