Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 May 2007 13:21:41 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe an nlink problem? |
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On May 10 2007 10:38, Matt Mackall wrote: >> >> for i in `seq 20`; do >> hg clone -U --pull a b-$i >> hg verify b-$i # always OK >> umount /home >> sleep 5 >> mount /home >> hg verify b-$i # often found truncated files >> done >> [...] > >This test looks like it should consist solely of open-for-append and >write on about 20k files in the target directory. Because of the >--pull, no hardlinks are involved. It shouldn't be all that different >from doing tar cf - a | tar xf - b. > >The files get visited in alphabetical order, so the start of the >corruption may be telling.
You should not assume alphabetical order. Filesystems may be free to reorder things and return them (1) randomly like in a hash (2) by creation time during readdir().
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