> >>How did you create the 2m file?
> >
> >Yes,this is the problem. script invokes 'dd' with 'notrunc' for each
> >byte. If the file is 1kb, 'dd' invoked 1024 times with notrunc.
> >This seems to be creating the issue.
>
> IIRC that's not the direct cause though.
>
> Since kernel is using delayed allocation, each time we trigger buffered
> write, kernel just info fs to do accounting and copy the data into page
> cache, no real write is triggered.
>
> Only sync/fsync and memory pressure will make us to write pages into disc,
> and until then we allocate space for them.
>
> So unless you're trying such operation on a busy server which triggered
> several sync/fsync/memory pressure during the several seconds of dd, it
> won't cause so many fragments.
>
> I also tried your dd bs=1 method, no problem and still one single extent.
>
> Thanks,
> Qu
I'm using Ubuntu(16.04) desktop version (not server) running Xorg and others. May be its possible its
flushing data to disk at constant time. If you like to give it a try again with servers, below is the
exact script along with its timing & multiextent output.
one more curious thing, is it fine to have extents with size 4096 on RAID5 setup?
Cheers.
Lakshmipathi.G
#time /root/check_extents.sh f2MB 32
real 1m30.284s
user 1m22.796s
sys 0m39.324s
laks/btrfs-progs# ./btrfs-debugfs -f tests/mnt/f2MB
(263 0): ram 110592 disk 151015424 disk_size 114688
(263 110592): ram 4096 disk 147103744 disk_size 4096
(263 114688): ram 110592 disk 151130112 disk_size 114688
(263 225280): ram 696320 disk 151257088 disk_size 700416
(263 921600): ram 4096 disk 147107840 disk_size 4096
(263 925696): ram 700416 disk 152043520 disk_size 704512
(263 1626112): ram 4096 disk 147111936 disk_size 4096
(263 1630208): ram 344064 disk 153223168 disk_size 348160
(263 1974272): ram 4096 disk 147116032 disk_size 4096
(263 1978368): ram 118784 disk 152748032 disk_size 118784
file: tests/mnt/f2MB extents 10 disk size 2117632 logical size 2097152 ratio 0.99
--
$cat /root/check_extents.sh
#!/bin/bash
#$1 Filename
#$2 Expected no.of data stripes for the file.
create_layout(){
fname=$1
size=$(( $2 * 65536 ))
n=0
bs_value=1
stripe=0
while (( $n < $size ))
do
if [ $(( $n % 65536 )) -eq 0 ]; then
val='D'$stripe
echo -n $val
stripe=$(( $stripe+1 ))
# ensure proper value
bs_value=`echo "${#val}"`
else
echo -n 'x'
bs_value=1
fi
n=$(( $n+$bs_value ))
done | dd of="/home/laks/btrfs-progs/tests/mnt/$fname" bs=$bs_value conv=notrunc &> /dev/null
##EDIT above hard-coded path
}
create_layout $1 $2
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