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From: Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>
To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: fiemap is broken for sparse file in ext4?
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:15:10 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C119C2E.2090801@oracle.com> (raw)

Hi Ted and other ext4 gurus,
	I found fiemap may be broken for sparse files in ext4. Here is a simple 
example.

dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile1 bs=1M count=1
using fiemap shows that it has a delalloc extent.
Logical: 0 Ext length: 1048576	Physical: 0	flags: 7

flags 7 means FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST, FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNKNOWN and 
FIEMAP_EXTENT_DELALLOC,

while if we create a sparse file, fiemap will not show the delalloc extent.
dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile1 bs=1M count=1 seek=1
using fiemap shows that it has no extent for the file. while we should 
have some output like:
Logical: 1048576 Ext length: 1048576	Physical: 0	flags: 7

So we have different output with sparse and non-sparse file. Is it a bug 
for ext4?

Regards,
Tao

             reply	other threads:[~2010-06-11  2:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-11  2:15 Tao Ma [this message]
2010-06-11  4:08 ` fiemap is broken for sparse file in ext4? Eric Sandeen
2010-06-11  5:05   ` Tao Ma
2010-06-11 13:43     ` Eric Sandeen
2010-06-11 15:46     ` Eric Sandeen
2010-06-11 16:46       ` Greg Freemyer
2010-06-11 16:46         ` Greg Freemyer
2010-06-11 16:56         ` Eric Sandeen
2010-06-11 23:46           ` Tao Ma
2010-06-11 23:55             ` Eric Sandeen

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