Re: The null fs layer does not release the space of a removed file.

[Thorsten Glaser <tygs@netcologne.de>]

begin  electrogrammati illius Sven Kirmess

>I have a strange problem with mount_null on my Intel box. Whenever I
>remove a file the space is made free again. A umount of the null mount
>point
>(which may fail because I'm in the directory) frees the space. Is that
>a known
>problem or should I make a bug report?

The fs does not free deleted space instantly - especially when the
lower layer is ffs with softupdates.
Try delteing the file and wait some minutes. It'll do the trick.

-Thorsten
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