On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 08:44:17PM +0800, Zhu Han wrote: > Seems like xfs of CentOS 6.X occupies much more storage space than desired > if fallocate is used against the file. Here is the step to reproduce it: You test case is not doing what you think it is doing. > By the way, is it normal when the file is moved around after the > preallocated region is filled with data? > > $ uname -r > 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.x86_64 > > $fallocate -n --offset 0 -l 1G file ---->Write a little more data than > the preallocated size > > $ xfs_bmap -p -vv file > file: > EXT: FILE-OFFSET BLOCK-RANGE AG AG-OFFSET > TOTAL FLAGS > 0: [0..2097151]: 2593408088..2595505239 21 (29420144..31517295) > 2097152 10000 > > $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/file bs=1M count=1026 conv=fsync That does a truncate first, removing all the preallocated space. Use conv=notrunc to avoid this. Hence the space allocated by this new write is different to the space allocated by the above preallocation. The file has not been moved, the filesystem just did what you asked it to do. > > $ xfs_bmap -p -vv file > file: > EXT: FILE-OFFSET BLOCK-RANGE AG AG-OFFSET > TOTAL FLAGS > 0: [0..4194303]: 2709184016..2713378319 22 (23101408..27295711) > 4194304 00000 And so now you've triggered the speculative delayed allocation beyond EOF, which is normal behaviour. Hence there are currently unused blocks beyond EOF which will get removed either when the next close(fd) occurs on the file or the inode is removed from the cache. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
