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From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	fstests@vger.kernel.org, guaneryu@gmail.com,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 01/19] Fix xfs/009 to work with 64k block size
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 23:18:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180918031830.GA15708@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180917225925.GE4635@magnolia>

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 03:59:25PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> 
> Hm.  Certain filesystems draw a distinction between the fundamental
> block size and the minimum file block mapping size.  ocfs2 supports
> having a file cluster size (mkfs.ocfs2 -C) that is greater than the fs
> block size, and (I think) xfs can achieve something similar for files on
> a realtime device via the mkfs.xfs -r extsize= option.
> 
> If you're dealing with writing things into a file for a test, I think
> you have to use _get_file_block_size to make sure that you don't fall
> afoul of the cluster/block difference.  I don't know if you've checked
> that for this patch series...?
> 
> (Granted, I suspect that many tests have been sloppy about this...)

Indeed, we have a number of failures in ext4 bigalloc which are
because of this block size vs. cluster size difference.  IIRC, a while
back Eric Whitney had tried to start a discussion about how to best
deal with this issue, but it wasn't clear what was the right way to
add the necessary infrastructure to xfstests.  I had assumed it was an
ext4-only problem, and no one had time to try to come up with a
solution.

As far as I know, we still don't have any general infrastructure to
support this in xfstests.  Is this correct, or am I missing something?

	     		      	   	    - Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-18  8:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-12  6:26 [PATCH V3 00/19] Fix tests to work on non-4k block sized fs instances Chandan Rajendra
2018-09-12  6:26 ` [PATCH V3 01/19] Fix xfs/009 to work with 64k block size Chandan Rajendra
2018-09-17 22:59   ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-09-18  3:18     ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2018-09-18  3:27       ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-09-18  6:02     ` Chandan Rajendra
2018-09-18 14:36       ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-09-12  6:26 ` [PATCH V3 02/19] xfs/050: Fix "Push past soft inode limit" case Chandan Rajendra
2018-09-12  6:26 ` [PATCH V3 03/19] Fix xfs/050 to work with 64k block size Chandan Rajendra
2018-09-12  6:26 ` [PATCH V3 04/19] Fix xfs/074 " Chandan Rajendra
2018-09-12  6:26 ` [PATCH V3 05/19] Fix xfs/127 " Chandan Rajendra
2018-09-12  6:26 ` [PATCH V3 06/19] Fix xfs/139 " Chandan Rajendra
2018-09-17 22:29   ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-09-18  8:46     ` Chandan Rajendra
2018-09-12  6:26 ` [PATCH V3 07/19] Fix xfs/140 " Chandan Rajendra
2018-09-12  6:26 ` [PATCH V3 08/19] Fix xfs/190 " Chandan Rajendra
2018-09-12  6:26 ` [PATCH V3 09/19] Fix xfs/299 " Chandan Rajendra
2018-09-12  6:26 ` [PATCH V3 10/19] xfs/325: Inject free_extent error after CoW operation Chandan Rajendra
2018-09-12  6:26 ` [PATCH V3 11/19] Fix generic/102 to work with 64k block size Chandan Rajendra
2018-09-12  6:26 ` [PATCH V3 12/19] Fix generic/172 " Chandan Rajendra
2018-09-12  6:26 ` [PATCH V3 13/19] Filter fiemap output by FS " Chandan Rajendra
2018-09-12  6:26 ` [PATCH V3 14/19] Fix generic/177 to work with 64k " Chandan Rajendra
2018-09-12  6:26 ` [PATCH V3 15/19] Fix generic/230 " Chandan Rajendra
2018-09-12  6:26 ` [PATCH V3 16/19] Fix generic/235 " Chandan Rajendra
2018-09-12  6:26 ` [PATCH V3 17/19] Fix generic/459 " Chandan Rajendra
2018-09-12  6:26 ` [PATCH V3 18/19] Fix generic/018 " Chandan Rajendra
2018-09-12  6:26 ` [PATCH V3 19/19] Fix generic/108 " Chandan Rajendra
2018-09-18  5:20 ` [PATCH V3 00/19] Fix tests to work on non-4k block sized fs instances Zorro Lang
2018-09-18 10:28   ` Chandan Rajendra

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