linux-ext4 - Re: Rare xfsqa test failure

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Date:	Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:28:04 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
CC:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Rare xfsqa test failure

Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:07:05AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>>> EXTENTS:
>>> (65-80): 60720-60735, (81-222 [uninit]): 1181574-1181715, (223-229): 1181716-118
>>> 1722
>>> debugfs:  
>>>
>>> So it looks like there's a race which can cause ext4 to somehow miss an
>>> i_size update.
>> Are you sure it is a failure to update i_size, or is it possibly an
>> fallocate that extends the block count beyond i_size?
> 
> Look at the EXTENTS report from debugfs; blocks 81-222 are
> uninitialized from an fallocate, but block 223-229 are initialized.
> 
> 	      	      		     	   - Ted

This was from test 013?

If so, that calls ltp's fsstress, which does not call fallocate nor
posix_fallocate.  It only does preallocation on xfs via the old
xfs-specific ioctl (though I suppose we should add it...)

-Eric
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