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From: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: correct use of vmtruncate()?
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:55:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48189681.5080504@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080430072457.GB7791@skywalker>


>> This paragraph in particular reminds me of an outstanding bug with
>> O_DIRECT and ext*.  It isn't truncating partial allocations when a dio
>> fails with ENOSPC.  This was noticed by a user who saw that fsck found
>> bocks outside i_size in the file that saw ENOSPC if they tried to
>> unmount and check the volume after the failed write.
> 
> This patch should be the fix I guess
> 	http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/18/103

That's the thread related to the bug, yes, but that isn't the right fix
as David's later messages in the thread indicate.

- z

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-30 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-29 10:06 correct use of vmtruncate()? David Chinner
2008-04-29 17:10 ` Zach Brown
2008-04-29 21:52   ` David Chinner
2008-04-30  7:24   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-04-30 15:55     ` Zach Brown [this message]
2008-04-30  3:46 ` David Chinner
2008-04-30  7:47 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-04-30 10:15   ` David Chinner

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