linux-ext4 - Re: Files full of zeros with coreutils-8.11 and xfs (FIEMAP related?)

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Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:27:31 +0200
From:	Jim Meyering <jim@...ering.net>
To:	Pádraig Brady <P@...igBrady.com>
Cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	coreutils@....org, Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>,
	xfs-oss <xfs@....sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Files full of zeros with coreutils-8.11 and xfs (FIEMAP related?)

Pádraig Brady wrote:

> On 14/04/11 16:50, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> On 4/14/11 9:59 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> On 14/04/11 15:02, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Pádraig,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> here you go:
>>>>>> + filefrag -v unwritten.withdata
>>>>>> Filesystem type is: ef53
>>>>>> File size of unwritten.withdata is 5120 (2 blocks, blocksize 4096)
>>>>>>  ext logical physical expected length flags
>>>>>>    0       0   274432            2560 unwritten,eof
>>>>>> unwritten.withdata: 1 extent found
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please notice that this also happens with ext4 on the same kernel.
>>>>>> Btrfs is fine.
>>>>>
>>>> `filefrag -vs` fixes the issue on both xfs and ext4.
>>>
>>> So in summary, currently on (2.6.39-rc3), the following
>>> will (usually?) report a single unwritten extent,
>>> on both ext4 and xfs
>>>
>>>   fallocate -l 10MiB -n k
>>>   dd count=10 if=/dev/urandom conv=notrunc iflag=fullblock of=k
>>>   filefrag -v k # grep for an extent without unwritten || fail
>>
>> right, that's what I see too in testing.
>>
>> But would the coreutils install have done a preallocation of the
>> destination file?
>>
>> Otherwise this looks like a different bug...
>>
>>> This particular issue has been discussed so far at:
>>> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8411
>>> Note there it was stated there that ext4 had this
>>> fixed as of 2.6.39-rc1, so maybe there is something lurking?
>>
>> ext4 got a fix, but not xfs, I guess.  My poor brain can't remember,
>> I think I started looking into it, but it's clearly still broken.
>>
>> Still, I don't know for sure what happened to Markus - did something
>> preallocate, in his case?
>
> Well that preallocate test is failing for him
> when the source file is either on ext4 or xfs.
> He noticed the issue initially on XFS when copying
> none preallocated files, so XFS probably just has
> the general issue of needing a sync before fiemap,
> where as EXT4 just has this preallocate one
> (though I've not seen it myself).

FYI, I see the same failure now using ext3 (and but not w/ext4)
with rawhide's 2.6.39-0.rc2.git0.0.fc16.x86_64:

  + df -t ext3 .
  + require_root_
  + uid_is_privileged_
  ++ id -u
  + my_uid=0
  + case $my_uid in
  + NON_ROOT_USERNAME=nobody
  ++ id -g nobody
  + NON_ROOT_GROUP=99
  + cwd=/t/m/ext3/tmp/coreutils-8.11.1-5995ed-dirty/tests/gt-sparse-fiemap.Qhjo
  + skip=0
  + dd if=/dev/zero of=blob bs=32k count=1000
  1000+0 records in
  1000+0 records out
  32768000 bytes (33 MB) copied, 1.02932 s, 31.8 MB/s
  + mkdir mnt
  + mkfs -t ext4 -F blob
  mke2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
  Filesystem label=
  OS type: Linux
  Block size=1024 (log=0)
  Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
  Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
  8000 inodes, 32000 blocks
  1600 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
  First data block=1
  Maximum filesystem blocks=32768000
  4 block groups
  8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
  2000 inodes per group
  Superblock backups stored on blocks:
          8193, 24577

  Writing inode tables: done
  Creating journal (1024 blocks): done
  Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

  This filesystem will be automatically checked every 21 mounts or
  180 days, whichever comes first.  Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
  + mount -oloop blob mnt
  + cd mnt
  + echo test
  + test -s f
  + test 0 = 1
  ++ seq 1 2 21
  + for i in '$(seq 1 2 21)'
  + for j in 1 2 31 100
  + perl -e 'BEGIN { $n = 1 * 1024; *F = *STDOUT }' -e 'for (1..1) { sysseek (*F, $n, 1)' -e '&& syswrite (*F, chr($_)x$n) or die "$!"}'
  + cp --sparse=always j1 j2
  + cmp j1 j2
  + filefrag -vs j1
  + grep -F extent
  + filefrag -v j1
  + filefrag -vs j2
  + f ff1
  + perl /t/m/ext3/tmp/coreutils-8.11.1-5995ed-dirty/tests/filefrag-extent-compare
  + sed 's/ [a-z,][a-z,]*$//' ff1
  + awk '/^ *[0-9]/ {printf "%d %d ", $2 ,NF < 5 ? $NF : $5 } END {print ""}'
  + f ff2
  + sed 's/ [a-z,][a-z,]*$//' ff2
  + awk '/^ *[0-9]/ {printf "%d %d ", $2 ,NF < 5 ? $NF : $5 } END {print ""}'
  + test 0 = 1
  + for j in 1 2 31 100
  + perl -e 'BEGIN { $n = 1 * 1024; *F = *STDOUT }' -e 'for (1..2) { sysseek (*F, $n, 1)' -e '&& syswrite (*F, chr($_)x$n) or die "$!"}'
  + cp --sparse=always j1 j2
  + cmp j1 j2
  j1 j2 differ: char 1, line 1     <<<<================
  + fail=1
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