On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Andrei Popa <ierd...@gmail.com> 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? rupert. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
