Re: [2.6.8-rc2][XFS] Page allocation failure

[Kronos]

Il Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:04:03AM +1000, Nathan Scott ha scritto: 
> Hi there,
> 
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 07:30:23PM +0200, Kronos wrote:
> > ...
> > It seems that XFS failed an order 5 allocation (not atomic) on the read
> 
> Hmm, that file is fragmented up the wazoo for some reason
> (see the xfs_bmap -vv output on the file).  Any chance you
> know how it was written originally?

I think it was written by azureus (bt client), it creates a sparse file
and writes small blocks (usally 256KB) when they are downloaded (in
radom order). The partition had 1GB free (of 10GB) and I run xfs_fsr at
night.

> In particular, was it written with O_SYNC set?  (or via a sync NFS
> mount?).

I don't think so, I gave a look at sources it seems using memory mapped
files.

Luca
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