On Dec 19, 2006 17:12 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > I wrote a simple tool to test these patches. The tool takes four > arguments: > > * command: It may have either of the two values - "prealloc" or "write" > * filename: This is the filename with relative path > * offset: The offset within the file from where the preallocation, or > the write should start. > * length: Total number of bytes to be allocated/written from offset. > > Following cases were tested : > 1. * preallocation from 0 to 32MB > * write to various parts of the preallocated space in sets > * observed that the extents get split and also get merged > > 2. * preallocate with holes at various places in the file > * write to blocks starting from a hole and ending into preallocated > blocks and vice-versa > * try to write to entire set of blocks (i.e. from 0 to the last > preallocated block) which has holes in between.
An ideal test would be to modify fsx to (randomly) do preallocations instead of truncates that increase the size. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
