how does xtrabackup copy data files?

[Baron Schwartz]

A few questions that I had a hard time figuring out from the source:

- are the files copied in page-sized blocks?
- are the page-sized blocks checksummed during the copy to catch
corruption?
- is there a retry in case there is corruption, such as reading a page
at the same time it's being written? Does that matter?
- are there any other internal details that are interesting or
important to know?

[Peter Zaitsev]

Baron,

As far as  I remember looking at Strace it uses 1MB  reads...   But yes details of this
should be documented. 

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[Baron Schwartz]

Hi Peter,

I'm not sure why I didn't think to use strace. You're right, it's 1MB
at a time. And then I also found the right spot in the source code,
which somehow I missed before. It iterates over the 1MB buffer a page at
a time, and checks for page corruption, and retries up to 10 times for
each page. It skips this check on the doublewrite buffer.

On Mon, Nov 8 at 17:28 Peter Zaitsev wrote:
> Baron,
>
> As far as I remember looking at Strace it uses 1MB reads... But yes
> details of this
> should be documented.
>
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Baron Schwartz <ba...@percona.com> wrote:
>
> > A few questions that I had a hard time figuring out from the source:
> >
> > - are the files copied in page-sized blocks?
> > - are the page-sized blocks checksummed during the copy to catch
> > corruption?
> > - is there a retry in case there is corruption, such as reading a page
> > at the same time it's being written? Does that matter?
> > - are there any other internal details that are interesting or
> > important to know?
> >
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