On 16.05.19 16:43, Max Reitz wrote:
> It is possible for an empty file to take up blocks on a filesystem, for
> example:
> 
> $ qemu-img create -f raw test.img 1G
> Formatting 'test.img', fmt=raw size=1073741824
> $ mkfs.ext4 -I 128 -q test.img
> $ mkdir test-mount
> $ sudo mount -o loop test.img test-mount
> $ sudo touch test-mount/test-file
> $ stat -c 'blocks=%b' test-mount/test-file
> blocks=8
> 
> These extra blocks (one cluster) are apparently used for metadata,
> because they are always there, on top of blocks used for data:
> 
> $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=test-mount/test-file bs=1M count=1
> 1+0 records in
> 1+0 records out
> 1048576 bytes (1.0 MB, 1.0 MiB) copied, 0.00135339 s, 775 MB/s
> $ stat -c 'blocks=%b' test-mount/test-file
> blocks=2056
> 
> Make iotest 175 take this into account.
> 
> Reported-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Nir Soffer <nsof...@redhat.com>
> ---
> v3:
> - Actually tested this on an FS with the behavior in question and
>   noticed the patterns were lacking a $.  Since I'm now sending a v3
>   anyway, I might as well fix it with the heavy hammer and make it a
>   ($|[^0-9]).
> - Added example configuration to the commit message [Nir]
> - Kept the R-bs because I didn't feel too bad about doing so.
> ---
>  tests/qemu-iotests/175     | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  tests/qemu-iotests/175.out |  8 ++++----
>  2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Applied to my block branch.

Max

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