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
next prev parent 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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