Re: fallocate creating fragmented files

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> 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
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testfile: 421 extents found
[robm@imap14 conf]$ filefrag -v testfile2
Filesystem type is: ef53
File size of testfile2 is 20971520 (20480 blocks, blocksize 1024)
 ext logical physical expected length flags
   0       0 44789287              60 unwritten
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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


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