From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org Subject: [Bug 15579] ext4 -o discard produces incorrect blocks of zeroes in newly created files under heavy read+truncate+append-new-file load Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:17:18 GMT Message-ID: <201003290817.o2T8HIKV010825@demeter.kernel.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from demeter.kernel.org ([140.211.167.39]:56273 "EHLO demeter.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750761Ab0C2IRU (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Mar 2010 04:17:20 -0400 Received: from demeter.kernel.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by demeter.kernel.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o2T8HITg010826 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:17:18 GMT In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15579 --- Comment #8 from Andreas Beckmann 2010-03-29 08:16:54 --- (In reply to comment #7) > If the number of available unmapped blocks has an impact, that seems most > likely to be a SSD firmware bug to me. > > ie. If the linux kernel is sending control messages in the wrong order, then it > should cause corruption regardless of the number of unmapped blocks. That's correct except that you may get a timing issue (e.g. writing to free unmapped blocks is/could be/should be a bit faster than clearing the blocks first) which could turn this into race condition debugging ... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching the assignee of the bug.