linux-ext4 - Re: EXT4 ENOSPC Bug

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Date:	Tue, 2 Dec 2008 13:26:56 -0200
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
Cc:	Andres Freund <andres@...razel.de>, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: EXT4 ENOSPC Bug

On Mon, 01 Dec 2008, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> - do the applications writing to this file have any unusual IO pattern
>   (e.g. mmap IO, lots of write+truncate+write on the same file, etc)

Vuze does a massive ammount of sparse writes.  It can also be configured to
pre-allocate space (either by creating an empty non-sparse file, or by
telling the kernel that the file is expected to grow to size foo and to
please pre-allocate that in the filesystem.  I don't recall how this is
done).

-- 
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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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