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From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: drastic changes to allocsize semantics in or around 2.6.38?
Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 09:59:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110522075955.GA2341@citd.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110522020024.GZ32466@dastard>

On 22.05.2011 12:00, Dave Chinner wrote:
> 
> I don't really care what you think the problem is based on what
> you've read in this email thread, or for that matter how you think
> we should fix it. What I really want is your test cases that
> reproduce the problem so I can analyse it for myself. Once I
> understand what is going on, then we can talk about what the real
> problem is and how to fix it.

What would interest me is why the following creates files with large 
preallocations.

cp -a <somedir> target
rm -rf target
cp -a <somedir> target

After the first copy everything looks normal, `du` is about the 
original value.

After the second run a `du` shows a much higher value, until the 
preallocation is shrunk away.





Bis denn

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-22  8:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-20  0:55 drastic changes to allocsize semantics in or around 2.6.38? Marc Lehmann
2011-05-20  2:56 ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-20 15:49   ` Marc Lehmann
2011-05-21  0:45     ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-21  1:36       ` Marc Lehmann
2011-05-21  3:15         ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-21  4:16           ` Marc Lehmann
2011-05-22  2:00             ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-22  7:59               ` Matthias Schniedermeyer [this message]
2011-05-23  1:20                 ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-23  9:01                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-24  0:20                     ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-23 13:35               ` Marc Lehmann
2011-05-24  1:30                 ` Dave Chinner

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