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Date:      Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:58:52 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: heavy NFS writes lead to corrup summary in superblock
Message-ID:  <4489A8CC.8030307@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <200606091253.37446.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>
References:  <20060609065656.31225.qmail@web30313.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200606091253.37446.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>

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Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> п'ятниця 09 червень 2006 02:56, R. B. Riddick написав:
> 
>>I say, does that discrepancy persist, when you just wait some time?
> 
> 
> Yes... I'm noticing this hours after the dumps ended...
> 
> 
>>I would guess, that something has an open file descriptor on a deleted
>>file, so that this file cannot be really deleted (it just disappears from
>>the directory tree)...
> 
> 
> If anything did, I wouldn't be able to umount the filesystem cleanly, would I? 
> Yet, it unmounts peacefully, even though the subsequent fsck finds the 
> superblock summary to be incorrect.
> 
> When I tried to use the FS as a scratch for an unrelated thing, though, I 
> noticed some processes hanging in nbufkv state. Google-ing led me to the:
> 
> 	http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-June/004702.html
> 
> Is this 3 year old advise *still* true? I rebuilt the kernel with BKVASIZE 
> bumped to 64K (the block size on the FS in question) and am running another 
> batch of dumps right now. When it is over, I'll check the df/du...
> 
> Yours,
> 
> 	-mi

Can you actually measure a performance difference with using the -b 
65535 option on newfs?  All of the I/O is buffered anyways and 
contiguous data is already going to be written in 64k blocks.

Scott



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