Re: 'holey files' not holey enough.

[Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>]

Marc Mutz writes:
> kernel 2.2.17, '/' being a 1k blocksize ext2fs:
> 
> root@adam:/ > dd if=/dev/zero of=holed.file bs=1000 seek=5000 count=1000
> 1000+0 records in
> 1000+0 records out
> root@adam:/ > ls -l holed.file
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      6000000 Nov 29 23:33 holed.file
> root@adam:/ > du -sh holed.file
> 5.7M    holed.file

Strangely, I have 2.2.17 (TurboLinux patched), on a 1k filesystem and
I have no problems.  I have 1k, 2k, and 4k ext2 fs, all OK.

What people who have the problem should be doing is:
> ls -li holed.file        # find inode number
10732 -rw-r--r--    1 root     root      6000000 Nov 29 16:17 holed.file
> du -sk holed.file        # see what "stat" thinks
983k    holed.file
> debugfs /dev/XXX
debugfs> stats           # find out ext2 block size
...
Block size = 1024, fragment size = 1024
...
debugfs> stat <10732>  # (with < and >)
Inode: 10732   Type: regular    Mode:  0644   Flags: 0x0   Generation:
4048594821
User:     0   Group:     0   Size: 6000000
File ACL: 0    Directory ACL: 0
Links: 1   Blockcount: 1966
                       ^^^^ these are 512-byte blocks, so / 2 for ~kB
		            they include indirect blocks and such
Fragment:  Address: 0    Number: 0    Size: 0
ctime: 0x3a258e82 -- Wed Nov 29 16:17:22 2000
atime: 0x3a258e82 -- Wed Nov 29 16:17:22 2000
mtime: 0x3a258e82 -- Wed Nov 29 16:17:22 2000
BLOCKS:
47512 47513 47514 47515 47516 47517 47518 47519 47520 ... 48723 48724
TOTAL: 983
       ^^^ these are ext2fs sized blocks, not necessarily kB

If what debugfs says doesn't match du, then it is du/libc/stat that is
broken.  If debugfs says the file actually has 6000000 bytes of data,
then it is the filesystem that is broken.

Cheers, Andreas
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                 \  would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
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