> Can you show us the the inode number for each of the test files along > with the filefrag -v output? What I suspect is going on is that the > kernel is trying too hard to start the block allocation in the same > block group which was used for the inode number. Since Bron isn't around right now and I know where the files are... [robm@imap14 conf]$ ls -i testfile 15238691 testfile [robm@imap14 conf]$ ls -i testfile2 15238707 testfile2 [robm@imap14 conf]$ filefrag -v testfile Filesystem type is: ef53 File size of testfile is 20971520 (20480 blocks, blocksize 1024) ext logical physical expected length flags 0 0 13545000 48 unwritten 1 48 13545134 13545048 48 unwritten 2 96 13545357 13545182 48 unwritten 3 144 13545431 13545405 48 unwritten 4 192 13546319 13545479 48 unwritten 5 240 13546936 13546367 48 unwritten 6 288 13542294 13546984 47 unwritten 7 335 13542391 13542341 47 unwritten 8 382 13542478 13542438 47 unwritten 9 429 13542719 13542525 47 unwritten 10 476 13542927 13542766 47 unwritten 11 523 13543448 13542974 47 unwritten 12 570 13543595 13543495 47 unwritten 13 617 13543745 13543642 47 unwritten 14 664 13543994 13543792 47 unwritten 15 711 13544115 13544041 47 unwritten 16 758 13544396 13544162 47 unwritten 17 805 13544471 13544443 47 unwritten 18 852 13544608 13544518 47 unwritten 19 899 13547571 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289 19620 52406750 52408354 50 unwritten 290 19670 52407775 52406800 49 unwritten 291 19719 52407960 52407824 46 unwritten 292 19765 52404632 52408006 40 unwritten 293 19805 52405251 52404672 40 unwritten 294 19845 52408425 52405291 40 unwritten 295 19885 52404778 52408465 38 unwritten 296 19923 52407244 52404816 38 unwritten 297 19961 52408247 52407282 37 unwritten 298 19998 52406133 52408284 36 unwritten 299 20034 52408566 52406169 54 unwritten 300 20088 52406491 52408620 36 unwritten 301 20124 52408651 52406527 51 unwritten 302 20175 52408703 52408702 137 unwritten 303 20312 52408841 52408840 107 unwritten 304 20419 52407194 52408948 36 unwritten 305 20455 52510893 52407230 25 unwritten,eof testfile2: 306 extents found > What we probably need to do is to have some hueristic where if we know > there are plenty of block groups with lots of large contiguous free > space, and the block group which we are preferring either because it's > the same one as the inode number, or because it's where we had > previously done the last block allocation for the file, and we the > user requests a large fallocated region, that it's better to switch > over to one of the other block groups with lots and lots of free > space. In this particular case, those allocations look to be in 2 main areas for each file, however I know that in other tests we saw data spread all over the place. For that matter, one big question I have is why each of these results is so different. [robm@imap14 conf]$ for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do fallocate -l 20m testfile3; filefrag testfile3; /bin/rm testfile3; done testfile3: 496 extents found testfile3: 284 extents found testfile3: 714 extents found testfile3: 285 extents found testfile3: 632 extents found testfile3: 269 extents found testfile3: 701 extents found testfile3: 290 extents found testfile3: 349 extents found testfile3: 337 extents found -- Rob Mueller robm@xxxxxxxxxxx -- 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