From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe an nlink problem?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 16:49:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4643AF8F.5040705@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070510232729.GH86004887@sgi.com>
David Chinner wrote:
> Ok, this is important to kow becase we merged a mod around that time
> that changes the way we handle the updates to the file size i.e. the
> fix for the NULL-files-on-crash problem:
>
> http://git2.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ba87ea699ebd9dd577bf055ebc4a98200e337542
>
> and that means the size of the file is not updated to the incore
> cached inode until after the data write is complete. The symptoms
> being seen would match with a inode-not-being-written-after-last-
> data-write-bug in this mod....
>
Yes, that does look like a good candidate. Should I try to
before-and-after this change?
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-10 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-09 21:09 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe an nlink problem? Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-09 21:55 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-09 22:17 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-09 22:44 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-09 22:50 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-09 23:16 ` David Chinner
2007-05-09 23:30 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 0:01 ` David Chinner
2007-05-10 0:04 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 0:49 ` David Chinner
2007-05-10 0:54 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 1:26 ` David Chinner
2007-05-10 14:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 15:38 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-12 11:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-12 12:46 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-14 20:16 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-14 20:27 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 21:13 ` David Chinner
2007-05-10 21:23 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-10 21:32 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 21:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 21:41 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-05-10 21:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 21:51 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-05-10 21:54 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 22:58 ` David Chinner
2007-05-10 23:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 23:27 ` David Chinner
2007-05-10 23:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-05-11 0:32 ` David Chinner
2007-05-11 14:48 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-12 7:56 ` David Chinner
2007-05-12 11:23 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-12 13:51 ` David Chinner
2007-05-12 14:56 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-15 0:14 ` David Chinner
2007-05-15 19:24 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 23:07 ` David Chinner
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