Re: Confused by performance

2010-06-17 Thread David Brown
On 16/06/2010 21:35, Freddie Cash wrote: snip a lot of fancy math that missed the point That's all well and good, but you missed the part where he said ext2 on a 5-way LVM stripeset is many times faster than btrfs on a 5-way btrfs stripeset. IOW, same 5-way stripeset, different filesystems and

Re: Odd block-count behaviour

2010-06-17 Thread Chris Mason
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 01:47:30PM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote: Hi, I've just been copying large quantities of data from one btrfs volume to another, and while watching the progress of the copy, I've noticed something odd. $ mv source-dir dest-dir $ watch du -ms source-dir dest-dir

Re: Mysteriously changing RAID levels

2010-06-17 Thread Chris Mason
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 08:12:03AM -0600, cwillu wrote: I just noticed today that btrfs fi df / no longer reports any raid level on Metadata or Data. I know as of Jun 4 that Data was RAID1 and Metadata was DUP (I had posted my df output to irc). I've already checked that I didn't revert to

Re: Confused by performance

2010-06-17 Thread Chris Mason
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:08:48AM -0700, K. Richard Pixley wrote: Once again I'm stumped by some performance numbers and hoping for some insight. Using an 8-core server, building in parallel, I'm building some code. Using ext2 over a 5-way, (5 disk), lvm partition, I can build that code

Re: Still ENOSPC problems with 2.6.35-rc3

2010-06-17 Thread Sander
Yan, Zheng wrote (ao): what will happen if you keep deleting files using 2.6.35? From the list: Things you don't want your fs developer to say ;-) PS, I am a very happy btrfs user on several systems (including AMR based OpenRD-Client and SheevaPlug, and large 64bit servers), so no flame

Re: Still ENOSPC problems with 2.6.35-rc3

2010-06-17 Thread Johannes Hirte
Am Donnerstag 17 Juni 2010, 02:47:07 schrieb Yan, Zheng: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Johannes Hirte johannes.hi...@fem.tu-ilmenau.de wrote: Am Donnerstag 17 Juni 2010, 01:12:54 schrieb Yan, Zheng: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Johannes Hirte johannes.hi...@fem.tu-ilmenau.de

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Complex filesystem operations: split and join

2010-06-17 Thread Hubert Kario
On Tuesday 15 June 2010 17:16:06 David Pottage wrote: On 15/06/10 11:41, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote: I had a one-off use-case, where I had no free-space, which made me think along this line. 1. We have the GNU split tool for example, which I guess, many of us use to split larger files

xfstests: Failed 4 of 36 tests

2010-06-17 Thread Brad Figg
I successfully ran check from xfstests on a 2.6.35 based system. I've patebin'd the test output as well as my dmesg. Note, there is a backtrace in the dmesg. output from check: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/451219/ dmesg: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/451222/ Feel free to let me know what other

Re: btrfs: hanging processes - race condition?

2010-06-17 Thread Shaohua Li
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 09:41:18AM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 09:28:29PM +0800, Chris Mason wrote: On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 02:50:06PM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:32:07AM +0800, Yan, Zheng wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Shaohua Li