Re: delalloc fragmenting files?

[Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>]

On Nov 05, 2007  11:37 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Alex Tomas wrote:
> > thanks for the data. the attached patch should fix couple issues:
> > broken history output and policy in that smaller usable chunk to
> > be used. can you give it a spin, please?
> 
> This looks *much* better:
> 
> First block: 100355
> Last block: 2342657
> Discontinuity: Block 30208 is at 133120 (was 130562)
> Discontinuity: Block 60928 is at 165891 (was 163839)
> Discontinuity: Block 90368 is at 197634 (was 195330)
> Discontinuity: Block 121856 is at 232448 (was 229121)
> Discontinuity: Block 150528 is at 263170 (was 261119)
> Discontinuity: Block 181504 is at 296963 (was 294145)
> Discontinuity: Block 210944 is at 328706 (was 326402)
> Discontinuity: Block 241664 is at 361474 (was 359425)
> Discontinuity: Block 272896 is at 395264 (was 392705)
> Discontinuity: Block 303360 is at 427010 (was 425727)
> Discontinuity: Block 334080 is at 459778 (was 457729)
> Discontinuity: Block 365568 is at 493568 (was 491265)
> Discontinuity: Block 395264 is at 525314 (was 523263)
> Discontinuity: Block 426240 is at 558082 (was 556289)
> ....

On a related note - the FIEMAP patches to filefrag also include a new
output format that is much more useful, IMHO.  The new format is like:

{filename}
ext: [logical start.. end kB]: phys start..end kB    :           kB:lun: flags
  0: [         0..     30207]:     401416..    522251:       120828: 0 :
  1: [     30208..     60927]:     532480..    655359:       122880: 0 :
  2: [     60928..    121855]:     790536..    916484:       125948: 0 :

Hopefully Kalpak will be able to post the updated patches here soon.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Software Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.