similar to: preallocate CPU usage - pre4

I've been running some tests on files created by rsync and noticing fragmentation issues. I started the testing because our 5TB array started performing very slowly and it appears fragmentation was the culprit. The test I conducted was straighforward: 1. Copy over a 49GB file. Analyzed with contig (from sysinternals), no fragments. 2. Ran rsync and the file was recreated normally (rsync

Wayne.my vote is for a command-line option. I've noticed there is some penalty for very large files (35GB-50GB). The penalty is relatively small based on my 'intuitive' measurements.read me watching without running a real timer. The difference is very small compared to what happens after a few weeks without the fragmentation patch. Our SAN was becoming so fragmented that we were

Greetings, I would like to write a patch for rsync but need some help getting started. Here is my situation. I am using cwrsync to copy files from one Windows server to another Windows server. One file that I need to backup is 130 GB. The daily changes occur all throughout the file, not just at the end of the file. File names look like this: Db_20080402_0003_DB.BAK Db_20080403_0003_DB.BAK

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11588 Bug ID: 11588 Summary: missing option: preallocate for all files except for sparse Product: rsync Version: 3.1.2 Hardware: x64 OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P5 Component: core

--- pxzcat.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/pxzcat.c b/pxzcat.c index 4ab8689..9bcdc36 100644 --- a/pxzcat.c +++ b/pxzcat.c @@ -29,10 +29,11 @@ * OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT * OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF * SUCH DAMAGE. */ +#define _GNU_SOURCE #include <config.h>

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Brian Cain <brian.cain at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Rui Ueyama via llvm-dev < > llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote: > >> If your system does not support fallocate(2), we use ftruncate(2) to >> create an output file. fallocate(2) succeeds even if your disk have less >> space than the

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 03:38:30AM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: [...] By the way, Eric Sandeen solved the problem. It's a genuine misfeature in ext4 called auto_da_alloc which causes a flush on close if the file has been truncated (ftruncate or O_TRUNC) and the file size is zero bytes. I added these patches which work around the issue:

Trying to get at least my backlog of bug fixes out... I'm hoping to do a 4.03 next week. Please help by: a) giving it a whirl; b) letting me know if I have missed any low-risk bugfixes. Gene: I did not include your UI branch in this release, because it made me a bit nervous... poke me on IRC when you have a chance. -hpa

A lot of code runs 'qemu-img create' or 'truncate' to create blank disk images. In the past I resisted adding an API to do this, since it essentially duplicates what you can already do using other tools (ie. qemu-img). However this does simplify calling code quite a lot since qemu-img is somewhat error-prone to use (eg: don't try to create a disk called "foo:bar")

Hi All I was reading through this: http://kashyapc.com/2011/12/02/little-more-disk-io-perf-improvement-with-fallocateing-a-qcow2-disk/ I was basically searching for pointers on improving disk I/O. I wanted to know the purpose of preallocation=full & preallocation=metadata , What is the difference between them ? and which one would yield a better disk I/O speed ? Appreciate your

If your system does not support fallocate(2), we use ftruncate(2) to create an output file. fallocate(2) succeeds even if your disk have less space than the requested size, because it creates a sparse file. If you mmap such sparse file, you'll receive a SIGBUS when the disk actually becomes full. So, lld can die suddenly with SIGBUS when your disk becomes full, and currently we are not doing

I believe that the changes to support --preallocate and --sparse together have broken --preallocate by itself (commit f3873b3d88b61167b106e7b9227a20147f8f6197) The previous behavior of --preallocate was to do just that: reserve blocks in the filesystem WITHOUT setting the size of the file to the final length. The reported filesize would change as the preallocated blocks were actually written.

Does FreeBSD have fallocate(2) or equivalent? On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote: > On 23 October 2017 at 18:49, Rui Ueyama via llvm-dev > <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote: > >> > >> BTW, posix_fallocate() might provide better portability and decrease the > >> likelihood of falling back on ftruncate(). > >

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 1:59 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote: > I found another problem which is sort of related to this thread. I > hit a time-out waiting for the disk to be unlocked after creation: > > > https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/8081f54105bd990233f166170890192c1fd7d1f3#diff-5ca47c29ae13efa3959b8b28cf4dbd31R112 > line 112 > >

fallocate() is linux specific and will preallocate the space on disk for the entire file. FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE does not change the filesize as reported by stat(). An aborted transfer will have preallocated disk space which is not "visible" via stat(). This shouldn't matter unless the user does complet his transfer. An alternative would be to use ftruncate() and shorten the file to the

Improving Samba write performance on Linux ------------------------------------------ Abstract -------- Samba performance is good in most circumstances, but modern Linux distributions have improved file systems since Samba was first developed. In particular, they have a feature that Samba does not take advantage of by default. In recent work I found that making some simple changes to Samba could

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 6:40 PM, Andrew Kelley <superjoe30 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 9:30 PM, Rui Ueyama <ruiu at google.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Andrew Kelley <superjoe30 at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> For Zig we use LLD as a library. So for us it would be better to avoid >>>

On 10/22/2013 05:56 PM, Gabriel de Perthuis wrote: > --- > pxzcat.c | 5 +++-- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/pxzcat.c b/pxzcat.c > index 4ab8689..9bcdc36 100644 > --- a/pxzcat.c > +++ b/pxzcat.c > @@ -29,10 +29,11 @@ > * OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT > * OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE,

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8775 Summary: Preallocate option doesn't work with recursive? Product: rsync Version: 3.1.0 Platform: x64 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P5 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned at samba.org ReportedBy: wgordonharris at

Hi, on a clustered Dovecot server installation that was recently moved from a shared GPFS filesystem to GFS2, occasional corruptions in the users' INBOXes started appearing, where a new incoming message would be appended directly after a block of NUL bytes, and be scanned by dovecot as being glued to the preceding message. I traced this to the file extension operation performed in