From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: Files full of zeros with coreutils-8.11 and xfs (FIEMAP related?) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:59:04 +1000 Message-ID: <20110414225904.GK21395@dastard> References: <20110414102608.GA1678@x4.trippels.de> <20110414120635.GB1678@x4.trippels.de> <20110414140222.GB1679@x4.trippels.de> <4DA70BD3.1070409@draigBrady.com> <4DA717B2.3020305@sandeen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E1draig?= Brady , coreutils@gnu.org, Markus Trippelsdorf , xfs-oss To: Eric Sandeen Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DA717B2.3020305@sandeen.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:50:10AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 4/14/11 9:59 AM, P=E1draig Brady wrote: > > On 14/04/11 15:02, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > >>>> Hi P=E1draig, > >>>> > >>>> 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=3D10 if=3D/dev/urandom conv=3Dnotrunc iflag=3Dfullblock of= =3Dk > > 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 destinat= ion 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=3D8411 > > 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 th= ink I started looking into it, but it's clearly still broken. > = > Still, I don't know for sure what happened to Markus - did something prea= llocate, in his case? Unwritten extent mapping behaves in an unexpected way due to buffered writeback not occurring immediately. Extent conversion doesn't occur until the data is on disk, and for buffered IO you need an fdatasync to ensure that has occurred. That is: = $ xfs_io -f -c "resvsp 0 10m" -c "pwrite 0 5120" -c "bmap -vp" /mnt/test/foo wrote 5120/5120 bytes at offset 0 5 KiB, 2 ops; 0.0000 sec (62.600 MiB/sec and 25641.0256 ops/sec) /mnt/test/foo: EXT: FILE-OFFSET BLOCK-RANGE AG AG-OFFSET TOTAL FLAGS 0: [0..20479]: 268984..289463 0 (268984..289463) 20480 10000 Data has not been written yet, so it is still unwritten. The same test with a fsync shows: $ sudo xfs_io -f -c "resvsp 0 10m" -c "pwrite 0 5120" -c fsync -c "bmap -vp= " /mnt/test/foo wrote 5120/5120 bytes at offset 0 5 KiB, 2 ops; 0.0000 sec (87.193 MiB/sec and 35714.2857 ops/sec) /mnt/test/foo: EXT: FILE-OFFSET BLOCK-RANGE AG AG-OFFSET TOTAL FLAGS 0: [0..15]: 268984..268999 0 (268984..268999) 16 00000 1: [16..20479]: 269000..289463 0 (269000..289463) 20464 10000 Everything is fine. So this seems like an application error to me. If you are going to use fiemap to determine what ranges to copy, then you have to fdatasync the source file first to guarantee that preallocated extents have been converted to written state before mapping the file.... Cheers, Dave. -- = Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs