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Date:      Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:08:00 +0400
From:      "Marat N.Afanasyev" <amarat@ksu.ru>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: bug in ufs?
Message-ID:  <4A5275C0.50607@ksu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20090706203427.GZ2884@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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Kostik Belousov wrote:
> 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 
>>>> see they have about 20 million files and almost each of them is jpeg or 
>>>> 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 
>>>> 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 filesystem
>>> in described state ?
>> I can create small files, as many as i have patience, maximum size of 
>> such "small file" is 14336, so. it seems that if file is no greater than 
>> (block_size-2048) it can be created. larger file cannot be created.
>>
>> imho, fragmentation on filesystem should be very low, there were no 
>> 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.

is there any way to change this behavior? and i wonder why even if i can 
create a reasonable number of small files i cannot create a slightly 
larger file joining two unallocated parts of different blocks even if no 
fully free block exists? ;)

-- 
SY, Marat

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