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Re: [ogfs-dev]RFC: Reclaim the excess freemeta blocks



On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:47:18AM +0800, Stanley Wang wrote:
> Hi, Folks
> I found that the ogfs couldn't reclaim the excess freemeta blocks to the
> freedata blocks When I read the On-Disk layout doc. Hence I think that
> we should add a cleaner to resolve this issue.
> 
> My plan is that ogfs_inoded should be responsible for scaning all rgrp
> and reclaim the excess freemeta. It go though the rgrp list and clean
> the rgrps one by one when waked up. 
> 
> Any comments or suggestinos?

I suggest to do it as a standalone tool for the beginning.  Ogfs
tries to cluster its meta blocks and simply converting them back
to data blocks once a high watermark is reached may have
catastrophic effects on keeping data local on the disk.

> I will send out the patch in few days if you feel good for this RFC.

Bye

Dominik ^_^  ^_^


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