From: Vladimir Saveliev Subject: Re: [2.4.18]: Reiserfs: vs-2120: add_save_link: insert_item returned -28 Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 19:26:34 +0300 Message-ID: <1074270394.2251.167.camel@tribesman.namesys.com> References: <200401091622.41352.lkml@kcore.org> <1074241063.2251.41.camel@tribesman.namesys.com> <200401161620.i0GGK2MT022923@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <200401161620.i0GGK2MT022923@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Jan De Luyck , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 19:19, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:17:43 +0300, Vladimir Saveliev said: > > > This is just a warning. You should be able to free some disk space by > > removing some files. > > Is this just the *obvious* "removing files frees space", or is there some sort > of garbage collection that will be triggered, so removing a 1K file will make it > redo tables/linked lists/whatever and return lots of blocks that used to contain > metadata? This is the *obvious* "removing files frees space".