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From: Kronos <kronos@kronoz.cjb.net>
To: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [2.6.8-rc2][XFS] Page allocation failure
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:14:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040729161453.GA4239@dreamland.darkstar.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040729010403.GC800@frodo>

Il Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:04:03AM +1000, Nathan Scott ha scritto: 
> Hi there,
> 
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 07:30:23PM +0200, Kronos wrote:
> > ...
> > It seems that XFS failed an order 5 allocation (not atomic) on the read
> 
> Hmm, that file is fragmented up the wazoo for some reason
> (see the xfs_bmap -vv output on the file).  Any chance you
> know how it was written originally?

I think it was written by azureus (bt client), it creates a sparse file
and writes small blocks (usally 256KB) when they are downloaded (in
radom order). The partition had 1GB free (of 10GB) and I run xfs_fsr at
night.

> In particular, was it written with O_SYNC set?  (or via a sync NFS
> mount?).

I don't think so, I gave a look at sources it seems using memory mapped
files.

Luca
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      reply	other threads:[~2004-07-29 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-25 17:30 Kronos
2004-07-25 18:44 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-29  1:04 ` Nathan Scott
2004-07-29 16:14   ` Kronos [this message]

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