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Re: the shell will make the xfs fs locked

To: tom wang <wddi_1976@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: the shell will make the xfs fs locked
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: 02 Oct 2002 16:38:23 -0500
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We're looking at the problem here, and we can duplicate it.

It will be a hard problem to solve, but the main problem is that you are
creating so many extents in the file.  If you do not create so many
extents, you will not have this problem.

-Eric

On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 04:24, tom wang wrote:
> xfs-developers:
>  when I run the shell program as following on a xfs
> FS, the process will locked.
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> for((i=0;i<300000;i++)); do
>      truncate /mnt/current/a $(($i*8192));
>      cat /tmp/4kfile >> /mnt/current/a
> done
> /tmp/4kfile is a 4096-sized file
> xfs FS  mounted at /mnt/current
> the truncate program:
>      
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>       long long length = 0;
> 
>       if( argc < 2 || argc > 3 ){
>               printf("Usage: truncate filename [length]\n");
>               return -1;
>       }
> 
>       if( argv[2] )
>               length = atoll(argv[2]);
> 
>       if( truncate64( argv[1], length ) ){
>               perror("truncate failed");
>               return -1;
>       }
>       return 0;
> }
> 
> 
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