From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
Cc: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@osdl.org>,
reiserfs-dev@namesys.com, "Malte Schröder" <MalteSch@gmx.de>,
"Adrian Bunk" <bunk@stusta.de>, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2)
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:00:35 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45A58C33.4050909@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701110324.42920.vs@namesys.com>
Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote:
> Hello
>
> On Tuesday 09 January 2007 21:30, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Malte Schröder wrote:
>>
>>>>So something interesting is definitely going on, but I don't know exactly
>>>>what it is. Why does reiserfs do the truncate as part of a close, if the
>>>>same inode is actually mapped somewhere else?
>
>
> on file close reiserfs tries to "pack" content of last incomplete page of file into metadata blocks.
> It should not if that page is still mapped somewhere.
> It does not actually truncate, it calls the same function which does truncate, but file size does not change.
That's racy, unfortunately :P
>
> Please consider the below patch.
That seems like it would work. Probably papers over your truncate-inside-i_size as well.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-11 1:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 126+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-07 6:19 Linux 2.6.20-rc4 Linus Torvalds
2007-01-07 10:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-07 11:44 ` Russell King
2007-01-07 13:06 ` OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4) Tilman Schmidt
2007-01-07 15:13 ` David Woodhouse
2007-01-07 15:38 ` Russell King
2007-01-07 16:29 ` David Woodhouse
2007-01-07 17:06 ` Russell King
2007-01-07 19:11 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-07 19:20 ` Russell King
2007-01-07 20:48 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-01-07 23:37 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-08 0:38 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-01-08 1:03 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-08 1:14 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-01-08 1:45 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-08 6:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-08 8:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-08 1:32 ` OT: character encodings Tilman Schmidt
2007-01-08 1:59 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-08 19:53 ` OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4) Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-01-07 19:29 ` OT: character encodings Tilman Schmidt
[not found] ` <20070107195051.GF21133@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[not found] ` <45A17645.1030905@imap.cc>
2007-01-08 1:53 ` David Woodhouse
2007-01-07 18:21 ` OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4) Alan
2007-01-07 19:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-07 22:30 ` Alan
2007-01-08 1:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-08 20:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-08 22:00 ` Ken Moffat
2007-01-08 23:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-08 23:34 ` Eberhard Moenkeberg
2007-01-08 16:14 ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-08 22:17 ` Tim Pepper
2007-01-08 23:30 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-07 19:17 ` Russell King
2007-01-07 19:58 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-01-07 20:05 ` Dave Jones
2007-01-07 20:15 ` Sean
2007-01-07 20:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-07 21:07 ` Xavier Bestel
2007-01-08 4:42 ` David Woodhouse
2007-01-08 1:40 ` Horst H. von Brand
2007-01-07 13:23 ` Linux 2.6.20-rc4 Alan
2007-01-07 12:15 ` Akula2
2007-01-07 12:55 ` Russell King
2007-01-07 13:38 ` Akula2
2007-01-07 13:53 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-01-07 14:23 ` Akula2
2007-01-07 20:57 ` Peter Osterlund
2007-01-07 21:04 ` Peter Osterlund
2007-01-08 15:50 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-01-07 22:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-08 1:00 ` David Miller
2007-01-08 6:38 ` Peter Osterlund
2007-01-08 20:49 ` Peter Osterlund
2007-01-08 21:52 ` David Miller
2007-01-08 22:33 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-01-08 22:33 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-01-08 23:02 ` Peter Osterlund
2007-01-08 23:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-09 3:42 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-09 7:39 ` David Miller
2007-01-09 7:39 ` David Miller
2007-01-07 21:22 ` Gene Heskett
2007-01-08 0:22 ` 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions Adrian Bunk
2007-01-08 0:22 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-08 1:20 ` Bernhard Schmidt
2007-01-08 1:20 ` Bernhard Schmidt
2007-01-08 0:25 ` 2.6.20-rc4: known regressions with patches available Adrian Bunk
2007-01-08 0:25 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-08 0:33 ` [Bluez-devel] " Marcel Holtmann
2007-01-08 0:33 ` Marcel Holtmann
2007-01-08 0:33 ` Marcel Holtmann
2007-01-08 14:50 ` Linux 2.6.20-rc4 Mariusz Kozlowski
2007-01-08 14:50 ` Mariusz Kozlowski
2007-01-08 14:58 ` Sylvain Munaut
2007-01-08 14:58 ` Sylvain Munaut
2007-01-08 15:03 ` Mariusz Kozlowski
2007-01-08 15:03 ` Mariusz Kozlowski
2007-01-08 19:11 ` Jean Delvare
2007-01-08 19:11 ` Jean Delvare
2007-01-09 0:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-09 0:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-09 0:56 ` Greg KH
2007-01-09 0:56 ` Greg KH
2007-01-09 2:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-09 2:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-09 7:04 ` David Woodhouse
2007-01-09 7:04 ` David Woodhouse
2007-01-09 7:04 ` Sylvain Munaut
2007-01-09 7:04 ` Sylvain Munaut
2007-01-09 9:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-09 9:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-09 7:14 ` Sylvain Munaut
2007-01-09 7:14 ` Sylvain Munaut
2007-01-09 7:28 ` David Woodhouse
2007-01-09 7:28 ` David Woodhouse
2007-01-09 9:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-09 9:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-09 9:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-09 9:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-09 7:18 ` Greg KH
2007-01-09 7:18 ` Greg KH
2007-01-09 5:25 ` 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2) Adrian Bunk
2007-01-09 5:25 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-09 17:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-09 18:08 ` Malte Schröder
2007-01-09 18:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-11 0:24 ` Vladimir V. Saveliev
2007-01-11 1:00 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2007-01-11 13:12 ` Vladimir V. Saveliev
2007-01-11 23:53 ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-09 20:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-09 5:51 ` 2.6.20-rc4: known regressions with patches (v2) Adrian Bunk
2007-01-09 5:51 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-11 5:10 ` 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v3) Adrian Bunk
2007-01-11 6:43 ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-11 8:45 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-11 10:21 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-01-11 10:54 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-11 11:08 ` CIJOML
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701062216210.3661-AgDkxUvNf0y7TbgM5vRIOg@public.gmane.org>
2007-01-11 5:13 ` 2.6.20-rc4: known regressions with patches (v3) Adrian Bunk
2007-01-11 5:13 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-11 21:39 ` David Chinner
2007-01-11 22:02 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-11 23:05 ` David Chinner
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