On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 3:04 AM, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Andrei Popa <ierdnah@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 06:14 +0200, rupert THURNER wrote: >>> >> Will result in anything reported in 'dmesg' output? >>> > [ 6431.514454] device label 388gb-data devid 1 transid 1086 /dev/sda6 >>> > [ 6431.514969] btrfs: disabling disk space caching >>> > [ 6431.514977] btrfs: force clearing of disk cache >>> tried the same with kernel versions from >>> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/: >>> * 3.2.20 >>> * 3.4.0 >>> with version 3.4.0, i could delete one tiny file, but only one. peter >>> mentioned before to run the rm as root. yes, i did that, with all >>> kernel versions, the error was the same all the time. >> >> Have you tried to delete the files with "echo > file" ? This will empty >> the file without requiring a new metadata allocation. > > thanks for the hint! i did with the original kernel, but now i tried > it as root and with the 3.4.0 kernel as well. "no space left on > device". is there a special kernel version or a special btrfs tool > which allows to remove a file without writing more data? > Have you tried mounting with '-o nodatacow' yet? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
