Hi, I think that the disk allocation size of each file becomes a monotone increase when the file is made. But, it sometimes return to 0. Is it correct?
The result of the test at 2.6.37-rc4 is shown below. (see inode no. 291) # df -T /test14 Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdd14 btrfs 4162560 8736 3709440 1% /test14 # dd if=/dev/zero of=/test14/dir/as001.26603 bs=1M count=100 # dd if=/dev/zero of=/test14/dir/as002.26603 bs=1M count=200 # dd if=/dev/zero of=/test14/dir/sy001.26603 bs=1M count=300 oflag=direct # dd if=/dev/zero of=/test14/dir/as003.26603 bs=1M count=400 # ls -lis /test14/dir total 406528 288 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104857600 Dec 7 15:07 as001.26603 289 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 209715200 Dec 7 15:07 as002.26603 -> 291 99328 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 419430400 Dec 7 15:08 as003.26603 290 307200 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 314572800 Dec 7 15:08 sy001.26603 # sleep 3 # ls -lis /test14/dir total 406528 288 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104857600 Dec 7 15:07 as001.26603 289 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 209715200 Dec 7 15:07 as002.26603 -> 291 99328 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 419430400 Dec 7 15:08 as003.26603 290 307200 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 314572800 Dec 7 15:08 sy001.26603 # sleep 3 # ls -lis /test14/dir total 307200 288 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104857600 Dec 7 15:07 as001.26603 289 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 209715200 Dec 7 15:07 as002.26603 -> 291 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 419430400 Dec 7 15:08 as003.26603 290 307200 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 314572800 Dec 7 15:08 sy001.26603 # sleep 3 # ls -lis /test14/dir total 409600 288 102400 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104857600 Dec 7 15:07 as001.26603 289 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 209715200 Dec 7 15:07 as002.26603 -> 291 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 419430400 Dec 7 15:08 as003.26603 290 307200 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 314572800 Dec 7 15:08 sy001.26603 # sync # ls -lis /test14/dir total 1024000 288 102400 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104857600 Dec 7 15:07 as001.26603 289 204800 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 209715200 Dec 7 15:07 as002.26603 -> 291 409600 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 419430400 Dec 7 15:08 as003.26603 290 307200 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 314572800 Dec 7 15:08 sy001.26603 The trace result of btrfs_getattr() is shown below. Dec 7 15:08:03 luna kernel: ino:291 blocks:198656 i_blocks:0 i_bytes:0 delalloc_bytes:101711872 Dec 7 15:08:06 luna kernel: ino:291 blocks:198656 i_blocks:0 i_bytes:0 delalloc_bytes:101711872 Dec 7 15:08:09 luna kernel: ino:291 blocks:0 i_blocks:0 i_bytes:0 delalloc_bytes:0 Dec 7 15:08:12 luna kernel: ino:291 blocks:0 i_blocks:0 i_bytes:0 delalloc_bytes:0 Dec 7 15:08:18 luna kernel: ino:291 blocks:819200 i_blocks:819200 i_bytes:0 delalloc_bytes:0 Regards, Itoh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html