Re: Files full of zeros with coreutils-8.11 and xfs (FIEMAP related?)

Yongqiang Yang
2011-04-14T16:18:08Z

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf
<markus@trippelsdorf.de> wrote:
> On 2011.04.14 at 10:56 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> On 4/14/11 10:52 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> > On 14/04/11 16:50, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> >> On 4/14/11 9:59 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> >>> On 14/04/11 15:02, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
>> >>>>>> Hi Pádraig,
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> here you go:
>> >>>>>> + filefrag -v unwritten.withdata
>> >>>>>> Filesystem type is: ef53
>> >>>>>> File size of unwritten.withdata is 5120 (2 blocks, blocksize 4096)
>> >>>>>>  ext logical physical expected length flags
>> >>>>>>    0       0   274432            2560 unwritten,eof
>> >>>>>> unwritten.withdata: 1 extent found
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Please notice that this also happens with ext4 on the same kernel.
>> >>>>>> Btrfs is fine.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>> `filefrag -vs` fixes the issue on both xfs and ext4.
>> >>>
>> >>> So in summary, currently on (2.6.39-rc3), the following
>> >>> will (usually?) report a single unwritten extent,
>> >>> on both ext4 and xfs
>> >>>
>> >>>   fallocate -l 10MiB -n k
>> >>>   dd count=10 if=/dev/urandom conv=notrunc iflag=fullblock of=k
>> >>>   filefrag -v k # grep for an extent without unwritten || fail
>> >>
>> >> right, that's what I see too in testing.
>> >>
>> >> But would the coreutils install have done a preallocation of the destination file?
>> >>
>> >> Otherwise this looks like a different bug...
>> >>
>> >>> This particular issue has been discussed so far at:
>> >>> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8411
>> >>> Note there it was stated there that ext4 had this
>> >>> fixed as of 2.6.39-rc1, so maybe there is something lurking?
>> >>
>> >> ext4 got a fix, but not xfs, I guess.  My poor brain can't remember, I think I started looking into it, but it's clearly still broken.
>> >>
>> >> Still, I don't know for sure what happened to Markus - did something preallocate, in his case?
>> >
>> > Well that preallocate test is failing for him
>> > when the source file is either on ext4 or xfs.
>> > He noticed the issue initially on XFS when copying
>> > none preallocated files, so XFS probably just has
>> > the general issue of needing a sync before fiemap,
>> > where as EXT4 just has this preallocate one
>> > (though I've not seen it myself).
>> >
>> > cheers,
>> > Pádraig.
>> >
>>
>> well, if I simply take the preallocation step out of the testcase, it works fine on xfs without a sync.
>>
>> So I still don't know what Markus hit...
>
> Maybe it's delalloc:
>
> x4 /tmp # dd count=10 if=/dev/urandom conv=notrunc iflag=fullblock of=k
> 10+0 records in
> 10+0 records out
> 5120 bytes (5.1 kB) copied, 0.0021822 s, 2.3 MB/s
> x4 /tmp # filefrag -v k
> Filesystem type is: 58465342
> File size of k is 5120 (2 blocks, blocksize 4096)
>  ext logical physical expected length flags
>   0       0        0              16 unknown,delalloc,eof
> k: 1 extent found
> x4 /tmp # sync
> x4 /tmp # filefrag -v k
> Filesystem type is: 58465342
> File size of k is 5120 (2 blocks, blocksize 4096)
>  ext logical physical expected length flags
>   0 0 26960045 16 eof
> k: 1 extent found
There is no preallocation in this case. Problem comes when fallocate
and dealloc work together.

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Yongqiang Yang