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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Cc: Yunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>,
	chao@kernel.org, yuchao0@huawei.com, yunlong.song@icloud.com,
	miaoxie@huawei.com, bintian.wang@huawei.com,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] f2fs: fix out-of-free problem caused by atomic write
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 23:38:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171027063854.GA25279@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171026143019.GB67431@jaegeuk-macbookpro.roam.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 04:30:19PM +0200, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> On 10/26, Yunlong Song wrote:
> > f2fs_balance_fs only actives once in the commit_inmem_pages, but there
> > are more than one page to commit, so all the other pages will miss the
> > check. This will lead to out-of-free problem when commit a very large
> > file. To fix it, we should do f2fs_balance_fs for each inmem page.
> 
> NAK, this breaks atomicity.

Can someone please explain (and write down in e.g. manpages) these
atomicy rules?

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-27  6:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-26 14:21 [PATCH] f2fs: fix out-of-free problem caused by atomic write Yunlong Song
2017-10-26 14:30 ` Jaegeuk Kim
2017-10-27  6:38   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-10-27 11:23     ` Jaegeuk Kim
2017-10-30 13:04 ` [PATCH v2] " Yunlong Song
2017-11-03  3:27   ` Yunlong Song
2017-11-03  3:46   ` Jaegeuk Kim
2017-11-03  4:48     ` Yunlong Song
2017-11-03 14:40       ` Yunlong Song
2017-11-03 15:23         ` Chao Yu
2017-11-06  1:34           ` Yunlong Song

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