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Date:      Mon, 6 Jul 2009 23:34:27 +0300
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        "Marat N.Afanasyev" <amarat@ksu.ru>
Cc:        Ralf Folkerts <ralf.folkerts@gmx.de>, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: bug in ufs?
Message-ID:  <20090706203427.GZ2884@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <4A525B72.1010808@ksu.ru>
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On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 12:15:46AM +0400, Marat N.Afanasyev wrote:
> Kostik Belousov wrote:
> >On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 09:45:45PM +0400, Marat N.Afanasyev wrote:
> >>i have a huge amount of small files on the source systems, as you can=
=20
> >>see they have about 20 million files and almost each of them is jpeg or=
=20
> >>gif. afaik, there are no sparse files at all.
> >>
> >>i still cannot figure out what is it: a free space leak in ufs2+su or=
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> >>bug in statfs(3), that is used in df, or something else.
> >
> >My guess that it is due to fragmentation.
> >As an experiment, try to create 1-byte file. Does it work on the filesys=
tem
> >in described state ?
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> I can create small files, as many as i have patience, maximum size of=20
> such "small file" is 14336, so. it seems that if file is no greater than=
=20
> (block_size-2048) it can be created. larger file cannot be created.
>=20
> imho, fragmentation on filesystem should be very low, there were no=20
> deletions on it, just creations.

The fragmentation on UFS usually means using fragments for the file tails,
not having file sequential blocks allocated in the non-sequential disk
blocks.

You experiment confirms my hypothesis.

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