On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 03:04:44PM +0000, Nelson, John R wrote: > I did ran filefrag on a 100GB file and it showed it in 82 extents, > when i did filefrag -v it went all the way down to 1038 Total > extents.. So which is correct? 82 extents or 1038 extents? Both, really. The first means that you have 82 contiguous regions in your 100 gig file. That's not bad at all, and reflects the fact that there is intervening file system metadata. Each chunk is over a gigabyte on average, and a seek every 1.2 gigabytes is not going to be noticeable. The reason you are seeing 1038 extents reflects the fact that an entry in a leaf node of the extent tree has a 15-bit length field, which given a 4k block size, means that each extent descriptor can only cover 128 megabytes. So we simply use multiple entries in an extent tree's leaf node for each adjacent 128 megabyte segment. Since filefrag -v shows you each physical extent descriptor, you'll see this. Filefrag -v has many uses, including for filesystem developers who are trying to debug performance issues, so it shows this greater amount of detail. Regards, - Ted P.S. The "expected" field shows the discontinuities, For example: % filefrag -v /u1/02\ Agent\ Afloat.m4v Filesystem type is: ef53 File size of /u1/02 Agent Afloat.m4v is 596714332 (145683 blocks, blocksize 4096) ext logical physical expected length flags 0 0 34816 32768 1 32768 67584 30720 2 63488 100352 98304 32768 3 96256 133120 30720 4 126976 165888 163840 18432 5 145408 164865 184320 275 eof In line #1, the physical + length fields is 67584 + 30720 = 98304. That's the physical block number we would hope to see in line #2 if that extent were physically contiguous with the previous one (and which you can see in the "expected" column). In fact, it wasn't; the starting physical block number for extent #2 was 100352. The fact that there are 3 discontinuities means that the file has 4 extents, comprising the logical block ranges: 0 -- 63487, 63488 -- 126975, 126976 -- 145407, and 145408 -- 145682. Hence: /u1/02 Agent Afloat.m4v: 4 extents found -- 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
