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    nilfs2: free unused dat file blocks during garbage collection · d0c14a9e
    Ryusuke Konishi authored
    
    
    As a nilfs2 volume ages, the amount of available disk space decreases
    little by little due to bloat of DAT (disk address translation) metadata
    file.  Even if we delete all files in a file system and free their block
    addresses from the DAT file through a garbage collection, empty DAT blocks
    are not freed.
    
    This fixes the issue by extending the deallocator of block addresses so
    that empty data blocks and empty bitmap blocks of DAT are deleted.
    
    The following comparison shows the effect of this patch.  Each shows disk
    amount information of a nilfs2 volume that we cleaned out by deleting all
    files and running gc after having filled 90% of its capacity.
    
    Before:
    Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sda1      500105212  3022844 472072192   1% /test
    
    After:
    Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sda1      500105212    16380 475078656   1% /test
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRyusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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