Strange fragmentation in nearly empty filesystem

[Carsten Oberscheid]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:30:38AM +0100, Michael Monnerie wrote:
> What if you dd if=foo.vmem of=test bs=1000 ? That would do nearly the 
> same as your "create empty file" test.

[co at tangchai]~/vmware/foo dd if=foo.vmem of=test_dd bs=1000
536870+1 Datensätze ein
536870+1 Datensätze aus
536870912 Bytes (537 MB) kopiert, 3,76026 s, 143 MB/s

[co at tangchai]~/vmware/foo xfs_bmap -vvp test_dd | grep hole | wc -l0

[co at tangchai]~/vmware/foo xfs_bmap -vvp test_dd | grep -v hole | wc -l 
10


Looks good. Seems like I'm ready to accept that XFS is innocent. See
other post.

Thank you & best regards


Carsten Oberscheid