From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752595AbbE0Hhr (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2015 03:37:47 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f169.google.com ([209.85.212.169]:36145 "EHLO mail-wi0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750977AbbE0Hhp (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2015 03:37:45 -0400 Message-ID: <55657446.40805@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 09:37:42 +0200 From: Mosis Tembo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Tux3 Report: How fast can we fail? References: <8f886f13-6550-4322-95be-93244ae61045@phunq.net> <55523C88.9080809@phunq.net> <20150526100326.GA8854@amd> In-Reply-To: <20150526100326.GA8854@amd> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/26/2015 12:03 PM, Pavel Machek 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? M.T. > Hmm. Can you also overwrite existing data in files when a volume is > full? I guess applications expect that to work.. > Pavel