One more information:
XFS is not a root file system , but EXT3 is a root file system.
Thanks,
Gopal.
On 1/14/08, Gopala Krishna <gopalakrishna.n.m@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> My system information:
> -bash-3.00# uname -a
> Linux XXXXX #1 SMP Thu May 17 14:00:09 UTC 2007 ia64 ia64 ia64
> GNU/Linux
>
> -bash-3.00# cat /etc/issue
> Welcome to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 (ia64) - Kernel \r (\l).
>
> Thanks,
> Gopal.
>
> On 1/14/08, Gopala Krishna <gopalakrishna.n.m@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I am seeing some strange problem with XFS and would like to know the
> > expected behavior and if it is faulty is there any patches to resolve the
> > problem.
> >
> > Problem:
> > ======
> > Basically I am extracting metadata information for a given file by
> > reading the inode structure from the particular disk offset (based on
> > it's position calculated by published inode structure and super block
> > structure information). Before reading the metada data information from the
> > disk, I am calling fsync (I used to call sync, but later I changed to fsync,
> > since sync is not guranteed to flush all meta data) to ensure all metadata
> > related to file is flushed to disk. Later I am reading particular disk
> > offset as per calculation. I am getting XFS magic field properly after
> > mapping to XFs inode structure. However I am not getting dimode properly in
> > some cases (not all cases) and it shows 00000 even for regular file and
> > directory.
> >
> > It is happening only when I copy new file to XFS. But, when I unmount
> > the file system and remount it, everything goes fine and I could get all
> > expected meta data information and proper value for dimode (in the inode
> > structure which indicates the type of the file, i.e regular directory
> > etc.) .
> >
> > Once I mount it back and later even if I remove the same file and copy
> > it back to XFS and then run my utility program, I could read mode
> > information properly. But If I copy different file, again I could not get
> > dimode properly. I have to unmount and remount to get the mode properly to
> > make my utility program to display information properly. Once it starts
> > getting proper mode value, it continues.
> >
> > So I am suspecting, even after calling fsync (which says it would block
> > untill it flushes metadata information to disk ), is not really flushing. So
> > only during unmount, it flushes metadata and hence I could get dimode
> > properly. since after remounting , by reading metadata information , I could
> > get mode properly and differentiate directory or regular file, and also it
> > is filling magic etc. properly, I feel the data I am reading is right and
> > that I could compare with stat system call and ls commands.
> >
> > If I am doing something wrong and no problem with XFS, then I should not
> > get mode field properly even after unmount/remount operation.
> >
> > Is there any problem with XFS fsync? Why dimode is getting updated only
> > during unmount? why not when I call fsync? Because fsync says it has to
> > flush all meta dat to disk before existing.
> >
> > Please let me know your feedback.
> >
>
>
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