On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:04:30AM -0800, Linda A. Walsh wrote: > > > FWIW -- xfs-oss, included as 'last line' was of minor interest; known bug on > this kernel?: > Linux Ishtar 2.6.35.7-T610-Vanilla-1 #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Oct 11 > 17:19:41 PDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux .... > Of *SIGNIFICANT* note. In trying to create an empty file of the size > used, from scratch, using 'xfs_mkfile', I got an error: > > > xfs_mkfile 5776419696 testfile > pwrite64: Invalid argument xfs_mkfile does not create an "empty" file. It creates a file that is full of zeros. iAnd you're getting that erro because: 5776419696 / 512 = 11,282,069.7188 the last write is not a multiple of the sector size and xfs_mkfile uses direct IO. It has always failed when you try to do this. If you want to create allocated, zeroed files of abitrary size, then use: xfs_io -f -c "truncate $size" -c "resvsp 0 $size" $filename to preallocate it. it'll be much, much faster than xfs_mkfile. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
