bug in ufs?

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Kostik Belousov wrote:

KB> > >>i have a strange problem with writing data to my ufs2+su filesystem.
KB> > >>
KB> > >>1. i made a 1T gpt partition on my storage server, and formatted it:
KB> > >>newfs -U -m 0 -o time -i 32768 /dev/da1p3a
KB> > >>
KB> > >>2. i tried to move data from other servers to this filesystem, total 
KB> > >>size of files is slightly less than 1T
KB> > >>
KB> > >>3. i encountered a 'No space left on device' while i still have 11G of 
KB> > >>free space and about 13 million free inodes on the filesystem:
KB> > >>
KB> > >>#df -ih
KB> > >>Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  iused    ifree %iused 
KB> > >>Mounted on
KB> > >>/dev/da1p3a    1.0T    1.0T     11G    99% 20397465 13363173   60% 
KB> > >>/mnt/45_114
KB> > >>
KB> > >>all i want to know is whether this is a bug or a feature? and if such 
KB> > >>a behavior is well-known, where can i read about it?
KB> > >Hi Marat,
KB> > >
KB> > >just a guess: Are there sparse Files on the Source System that are not 
KB> > >being detected by the Tool you used to restore the data? If you used 
KB> > >(bsd)tar, did you try -S?
KB> > >
KB> > >A while ago I ran into a similar Problem when copying 
KB> > >Oracle-Database-Files (on Linux, though) and the -S - Option came to 
KB> > >rescue.
KB> > >
KB> > >Cheers,
KB> > >_ralf_
KB> > 
KB> > i have a huge amount of small files on the source systems, as you can 
KB> > see they have about 20 million files and almost each of them is jpeg or 
KB> > gif. afaik, there are no sparse files at all.
KB> > 
KB> > i still cannot figure out what is it: a free space leak in ufs2+su or 
KB> > bug in statfs(3), that is used in df, or something else.
KB> 
KB> My guess that it is due to fragmentation.
KB> As an experiment, try to create 1-byte file. Does it work on the filesystem
KB> in described state ?

Doesn't UFS store one-byte (or several-bytes, like PID file) file entirely in 
the inode, not consuming any data blocks?

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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