Theodore Tso wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:54:00PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> Hm, and I tried writing out 10 files in order as a simple test but >> umount/remount brought me back many 0-byte files, I need to update my >> patchset I guess. :) >> > > One of the questions in my mind is whether this is a regression > triggered by the some of our most recent patches.... since I only > have 2.2% files reported a fragmented by e2fsck, and if this problem > had always been there, I would have expected a much higher > fragmentation number. So if you have some older kernels, you might > want to see if you can replicate the problem. I've since found that > just doing a copy via "(tar -cf - -C / usr/include ) | tar -C /mnt -xf -)" > is sufficient to see the problem. Just add a "sync; sleep 5" before > the umount. :-) It may be; I tried this and then a quick filefrag run: # filefrag usr/include/*.h | grep -v extents | awk -F : '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c 146 1 extent found so everything came out contiguous. This was with 2.6.27-0.186.rc0.git15.fc10.x86_64 -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html