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SubjectRe: [Regression] ext4: changes to mb_optimize_scan cause issues on Raspberry Pi
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Hi,

Am 31.07.22 um 22:42 schrieb Stefan Wahren:
> Hi Jan,
>
> Am 28.07.22 um 12:00 schrieb Jan Kara:
>>
>> Also can get filesystem metadata image of your card like:
>>    e2image -r <fs-device> - | gzip >/tmp/ext4-image.gz
>>
>> and put it somewhere for download? The image will contain only fs
>> metadata,
>> not data so it should be relatively small and we won't have access to
>> your
>> secrets ;). With the image we'd be able to see how the free space looks
>> like and whether it perhaps does not trigger some pathological behavior.
> i've problems with this. If i try store uncompressed the metadata of
> the second SD card partition (/dev/sdb2 = rootfs) the generated image
> file is nearly big as the whole partition. In compressed state it's 25
> MB. Is this expected?

This performance regression is also reproducible with 5.19 kernel
(arm64, defconfig) and 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS. Unfortunately the problem
with metadata generation is the same, the generated uncompressed file is
15 GB.

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