[Ocfs2-users] df showing wrong size

Patrick J. LoPresti lopresti at gmail.com
Mon Jun 28 09:37:24 PDT 2010


On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran at oracle.com> wrote:
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> ocfs2 is a journaled file system. But it is also a clustered file system.
> So it cannot arbitrarily delete orphaned files because they could still be
> in use on another node.

Ah, interesting...  So I have a dumb question:

If a deleted file is still open on a node, and that node crashes, when
and how does that file's space get reclaimed?

(Sorry if this is in the documentation and I missed it.)

 - Pat



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