Re: Rare xfsqa test failure

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On Aug 18, 2009  07:57 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> As a heads up, I'm seeing a rare xfsqa test failure with the stable
> portion of the ext4 patch queue; it doesn't hit all the time, but when
> it does, i_size is corrupted:
> 
> Inode 22047, i_size is 922788, should be 942080.  Fix?
> 
> 922788/4096 is 225 plus a fraction, while 942080/4096 is 230.  The
> debugfs information is as follows:
> 
> debugfs:  stat <22047>
> Inode: 22047   Type: regular    Mode:  0666   Flags: 0x80000
> Generation: 3536075281    Version: 0x00000000:00000001
> User:     0   Group:     0   Size: 922788
> File ACL: 0    Directory ACL: 0
> Links: 1   Blockcount: 1320
> Fragment:  Address: 0    Number: 0    Size: 0
>  ctime: 0x4a8a953b:546bc3d4 -- Tue Aug 18 07:49:15 2009
>  atime: 0x4a8a953b:29927210 -- Tue Aug 18 07:49:15 2009
>  mtime: 0x4a8a953b:546bc3d4 -- Tue Aug 18 07:49:15 2009
> crtime: 0x4a8a951c:5ac789dc -- Tue Aug 18 07:48:44 2009
> Size of extra inode fields: 28
> 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?

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

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