garbage block(s) after powercycle/reboot + sparse writes

[Eric Sandeen]

On 6/4/13 2:24 PM, Sage Weil wrote:
> I'm observing an interesting data corruption pattern:
> 
> - write a bunch of files
> - power cycle the box

I guess this part is important?  But I'm wondering why...

> - remount
> - immediately (within 1-2 seconds) write create a file and

a new file, right?

>  - write to a lower offset, say offset 430423 len 527614
>  - write to a higher offset, say offset 1360810 len 269613
>  (there is other random io going to other files too)
> 
> - about 5 seconds later, read the whole file and verify content
> 
> And what I see:
> 
> - the first region is correct, and intact

the lower offset you wrote?

> - the bytes that follow, up until the block boundary, are 0

that's good ;)

> - the next few blocks are *not* zero! (i've observed 1 and 6 4k blocks)

that's bad!

> - then lots of zeros, up until the second region, which appears intact.

the lot-of-zeros are probably holes?

What does xfs_bmap -vvp <filename> say about the file in question?

> I'm pretty reliably hitting this, and have reproduced it twice now and 
> found the above consistent pattern (but different filenames, different 
> offsets).  What I haven't yet confirmed is whether the file was written at 
> all prior to the powercycle, since that tends to blow away the last 
> bit of the ceph logs, too.  I'm adding some additional checks to see 
> whether the file is in fact new when the first extent is written.
> 
> The other possibly interesting thing is the offsets.  The garbage regions 
> I saw were
> 
>  0xea000 - 0xf0000

234-240 4k blocks

>  0xff000 - 0x100000

255-256 4k blocks  *shrug*

Is this what you saw w/ the write offsets & sizes you specified above?

I'm wondering if this could possibly have to do w/ speculative preallocation
on the file somehow exposing these blocks?  But that's just handwaving.

-Eric

> 
> Does this failure pattern look familiar to anyone? I'm pretty sure it is 
> new in 3.9, which we switched over to right around the time when this 
> started happening.  I'm confirming that as well, but just wanted to see if 
> this is ringing any bells...
> 
> Thanks!
> sage
> 
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