Hi Jim,
On 05/29/2010 12:44 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Tao Ma wrote:
Hi Jim
On 05/27/2010 06:30 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
jeff.liu wrote:
This is the revised version, it fixed the fiemap-start offset calculation
approach to remove it out
of the 'for (i = 0; i< fiemap->fm_mapped_extents; i++)' loop.
Hi Jeff,
I've included below the state of my local changes.
Unfortunately, with that 5-patch series, there is always a test failure
on F13/ext4. Maybe someone who knows more about extents can provide an
explanation?
Just want to clarify why ocfs2 didn't work here. I guess the reason
also works for ext4 since both ext4 and ocfs2 use block group to
organize their blocks in the volume.
Hi Tao,
Thank you for the explanation.
I'm glad to hear that there is no underlying problem.
I checked the perl test script to create sparse src file, it will
create contiguous bytes(around 20-24k) at an interval of around 40k.So
in general, these 20-24k should be contiguous. But that does exist
some scenario that they could be separately into 2 extents. Consider
one block group is used to allocate blocks to this file, when the
block group only has 10K left while you are requiring 20K, it will use
the left 10K in this group and allocate 10K from another block
group. That would become 2 extents since they can't be contiguous.
So I guess the right step is to check the holes by using filefrag if
you prefer this tool and want to make sure cp doesn't copy holes(I get
Do you know of a tool other than filefrag that I could use?
nope.
It looks like a small script could filter filefrag -v output, detect
split extents and rewrite to make the output match what's expected.
Probably not worth it, though, since this is already a very fragile test.
yeah, actually I guess what we want is not the extents number but the
result of whether extents match. So if we can find all the
pairs(v_cpos, len) both in the src and the target, and there is no extra
pair in the target, that is good enough. The extents number is really a
tricky thing and depends on what the internal file system does.
It would be nice to be able to perform the test in non-root
mode on any of ext4, ocfs2, btrfs, xfs file systems, but for
now, due to this difference, I can use only the latter two.
I think with the above method we should test ext4 and ocfs2 also. So
jeff, could you please write a small script to test whether the above
method work?
Regards,
Tao
