Re: btrfs failing fsx-linux

[Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 07:14:50PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 01:59:50PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 07:26:41PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > Hi Chris,
> > > 
> > > Don't know if this is a known issue, but I have btrfs (after my previous
> > > inode_tree fixup patch) failing fsx-linux in Linus's current git tree.
> > > 
> > > This makes it a bit hard for me to test my btrfs truncate conversion patch
> > > unfortunately, though it does seem pretty stable so I will probably just
> > > send it out anyway.
> > > 
> > > Anyway, just a head's up. Oh, the way I reproduce is to create btrfs
> > > on 1GB rd, run 4 instances of fsx-linux on different files in the root
> > > directory, and run `while true ; do sync ; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches;
> > > done` at the same time.
> > > 
> > 
> > Nick,
> > 
> > I'll take a look at this later today and see what I can come up with.  Thanks
> > for reporting it.
> 
> Any progress with this? Were you able to reproduce?
> 

Err sorry no, I got distracted with my -ENOSPC stuff, it's taking longer than I
expected it to.  I hope to wrap it up today and take a look at this next.  I was
able to reproduce the problem on the experimental branch of Chris's tree, so
it's not something that has been fixed yet.  Thanks,

Josef