Re: Errors in dmesg, no crashes though.

2012-02-27 Thread Nik Markovic
I've just seen this too on Fedora 16 while I was investigating an NFS issue. I was trying to copy a file from an NFS mount to a btrfs partition. The NFS transfers for large files were occurring in bursts for some reason and I was aborting the copy at times. This NFS problem was not related to

Re: Strange prformance degradation when COW writes happen at fixed offsets

2012-02-24 Thread Nik Markovic
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Nik Markovic posted on Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:31:02 -0600 as excerpted: I noticed a few errors in the script that I used. I corrected it and it seems that degradation is occurring even at fully random writes: I don't have

Re: Strange prformance degradation when COW writes happen at fixed offsets

2012-02-24 Thread Nik Markovic
To add... I also tried nodatasum (only) and nodatacow otions. I found somewhere that nodatacow doesn't really mean tthat COW is disabled. Test data is still the same - CPU spikes and times are the same. On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Nik Markovic nmarkovi.nav...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 24

Strange prformance degradation when COW writes happen at fixed offsets

2012-02-23 Thread Nik Markovic
Hi, My kernel version is 32-bit 3.2.0-rc5 and using btrfs-tools 0.19 I was having performance issues with BTRFS with fragmentation and HDDs, so I decided to switch to an SSD to see if these would go away. Performance was much better but at times, I would see a freeze happen which I can't really

Consistent crash with cp reflink on large files

2011-12-12 Thread Nik Markovic
Hi All, I have been encountering consistent btrfs filesystem crashes when using cp –reflink=always on a large file and modifying it. I believe that the test file needs to be fairly large as I was not able to reproduce with smaller files. The filesystem size is 45GB and file size is 10GB. Thanks,

Re: Consistent crash with cp reflink on large files

2011-12-12 Thread Nik Markovic
Li Zefan wrote: Nik Markovic wrote: Hi All, I have been encountering consistent btrfs filesystem crashes when using cp –reflink=always on a large file and modifying it. I believe that the test file needs to be fairly large as I was not able to reproduce with smaller files