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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: cluster-devel.redhat.com
Subject: [Cluster-devel] fallocate vs O_(D)SYNC
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:42:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111116084256.GA22963@infradead.org> (raw)

It seems all filesystems but XFS ignore O_SYNC for fallocate, and never
make sure the size update transaction made it to disk.

Given that a fallocate without FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE very much is a data
operation (it adds new blocks that return zeroes) that seems like a
fairly nasty surprise for O_SYNC users.



             reply	other threads:[~2011-11-16  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-16  8:42 Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-11-16  9:43 ` [Cluster-devel] fallocate vs O_(D)SYNC Steven Whitehouse
2011-11-16 10:54   ` Jan Kara
2011-11-16 11:20     ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-11-16 12:45     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-11-16 13:39       ` Jan Kara
2011-11-16 13:42         ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-11-16 15:57           ` Jan Kara
2011-11-16 16:16             ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]             ` <20111116161806.GP29279@shiny>
     [not found]               ` <20111116193540.GL23779@wotan.suse.de>
     [not found]                 ` <20111116200310.GN23779@wotan.suse.de>
2011-11-17 10:16                   ` Joel Becker
2011-11-18 12:09             ` Steven Whitehouse

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