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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Amit Sahrawat <amit.sahrawat83@gmail.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS - issues with writes using sync
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:17:20 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110120051720.GR16267@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin22efc0cHSmM+2rNQpE2aJoobQCnMwbNUjw617@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:34:30AM +0530, Amit Sahrawat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am facing issues in XFS for a simple test case.
> *Target:* ARM
> *Kernel version:* 2.6.35.9
> 
> *Test case:*
> mkfs.xfs -f /dev/sda2
> mount -t xfs /dev/sda2 /mnt/usb/sda2
> (Run script - trying to fragment the XFS formatted partition)
> #!/bin/sh
> index=0
> while [ "$?" == 0 ]
> do
> index=$((index+1))
> sync
> cp /mnt/usb/sda1/setupfile /mnt/usb/sda2/setupfile.$index
> done
> 
> Partition Size on which files are being created - 1GB(I need to fragment
> this first to run other cases)
> Size of *'setupfile'*  - 16K
> 
> There used be no such issues till *2.6.34*(last XFS version where we tried
> to create setup). There is no reset involved this time, just simple running
> the script caused this issue.

You have a known good version, a known bad version and a
reproducable test case. i.e. everything you need to run a git bisect
and find the commit introduced the regression. Can you do this and
tell us what that commit is?

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-20  5:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-20  5:04 XFS - issues with writes using sync Amit Sahrawat
2011-01-20  5:17 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2011-01-20  6:07   ` Amit Sahrawat
2011-01-20  6:38     ` Amit Sahrawat
2011-01-20 10:49       ` Dave Chinner
2011-01-20 11:34         ` Amit Sahrawat
2011-01-20  6:41     ` Dave Chinner
2011-01-20  7:09       ` Amit Sahrawat

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