On 2010-06-18 17:13, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 18/06/10 16.59, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> Eric Sandeen wrote: >>> Jens Axboe wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I was writing a small fio job file to do writes and read verifies on a >>>> device. It forks 32 processes, each writing randomly to 4 files with a >>>> block size between 4k and 16k. When it has written 1024 of those blocks, >>>> it'll verify the oldest 512 of them. Each block is checksummed for every >>>> 512b. It uses libaio and O_DIRECT. >>>> >>>> It works on ext2 and btrfs. I haven't run it to completion yet, but they >>>> survive 15-20 minutes just fine. ext4 doesn't even go a full minutes >>>> before this triggers: >>> >>> Jens, can you try XFS too? Since ext3 can't do direct IO to a hole, >>> (and I'm not sure about btrfs in that regard), ext4 may be most similar >>> to xfs's behavior on the test ... wondering how it fares. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> -Eric >> >> Actually mingming had a patch for direct-io.c which may be related, I'll >> test that out. > > OK, I'll try XFS tonight as well. XFS fails too. -- Jens Axboe -- 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
