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From: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
To: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs-dev <xfs-dev@sgi.com>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Review: fix null files exposure growing via truncate V2
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:08:41 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46A57B49.9030106@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070619063714.GP86004887@sgi.com>

Looks good to me.  Thanks for fixing it Dave.

David Chinner wrote:
> Test 140 fails due to the ftruncate() logging the new file size
> before any data that had previously been written had hit the
> disk. IOWs, it violates the data write/inode size update rule
> that fixes the null files problem.
> 
> The fix here checks when growing the file as to whether it the disk
> inode size is different to the in memory size. If they are
> different, we have data that needs to be written to disk beyond the
> existing on disk EOF. Hence to maintain ordering we need to flush
> this data out before we log the changed file size.
> 
> Version 2:
> 
> o Only flush the range between the old on disk size and the current
>   in memory size.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-24  4:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-19  6:37 Review: fix null files exposure growing via truncate V2 David Chinner
2007-07-24  4:08 ` Lachlan McIlroy [this message]

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