Re: Oops with ext4 from 2.6.27-rc3

Theodore Tso
2008-08-13T22:45:38Z

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 05:19:55PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>
> I don't :), but I tried a quick reproducer anyway and couldn't hit it ...
>
> mkfs.ext3, mount, create non-extents file
> umount, tune2fs to ext4
> mount as ext4, write to file, open file O_TRUNC
>
> ... didn't oops for me :(
>

In this particular case, we need to open the file for appending, write
to it, and then unlink it in order to trigger it, I think.

- Ted