On 12 Apr 2025, at 8:36, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > On 2025-04-11 15:29, Benjamin Coddington wrote: >> On 10 Apr 2025, at 8:55, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: >>> ... >>> Does this behaviour seem familiar to anybody? >>> >>> I realize this is "not a bug" (all data is safe and sound etc.) but >>> somehow it seems that various layers are not working together as one >>> might expect. It's possible that my expectation is wrong. :) >> >> My first impression is that the writes are being processed out-of-order on >> the server, so XFS is using a range of allocation sizes while growing the >> file extents. > > Thanks for reading! > > Yes, that's true but not the cause of the re-ordering - the server just > does what it's being told. The reordering has to come from the client in > async mode. There isn't any guarantee of write processing order for async writes, is there? I also don't think there's any practical impact. So I'm wondering what's the expectation of behavior and what problem you're trying to fix? Ben
