Re: 1.7 preallocate issue?

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Oct  7 12:12, Rob Bosch wrote:
> I've been testing out the 1.7.0-28 build of cygwin using rsync 3.0.3 with
> the preallocate patch.  My destination server setup is a Windows Server 2003
> R2 machine with a fibre array (10TB).  The client is also running the same
> version of cygwin and rsync on a Server 2003 box.  
> 
> I've noticed that when rsync is creating very large files using preallocate
> (20GB+) then I will occasionally get a "Resource temporarily unavailable"
> error returned from rsync on the destination side (the server with the 10TB
> array).  I've removed the file on the destination file system and the file
> will not get recreated using the preallocate option.  When I do not use the
> preallocate option there are no issues with rsync.
> 
> The preallocate patch is pasted below.  The important code segment is here:
> 
> +#ifdef SUPPORT_PREALLOCATION
> +int do_fallocate(int fd, OFF_T offset, OFF_T length)
> +{
> +	RETURN_ERROR_IF(dry_run, 0);
> +	RETURN_ERROR_IF_RO_OR_LO;
> +	/* TODO: Use FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE to avoid the need to truncate. */
> +#if defined HAVE_FALLOCATE
> +	return fallocate(fd, 0, offset, length);
> +#elif defined HAVE_SYS_FALLOCATE
> +	return syscall(SYS_fallocate, fd, 0, (loff_t) offset, (loff_t)
> length);
> +#elif defined HAVE_EFFICIENT_POSIX_FALLOCATE
> +	return posix_fallocate(fd, offset, length);
> +#else
> +#error coding error in SUPPORT_PREALLOCATION
> +#endif
> +}
> +#endif
> 
> Any idea on why this error would occur when using the posix_fallocate
> option?

Not the faintest.  Would you mind to run this under strace and send the
strace output for a run which trips over the "Resource temporarily
unavailable" error to this list?


Thanks,
Corinna

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