Re: xfstests 224: test aio hole-fill at 4g

Rich Johnston
2012-10-26T17:14:56Z

On 01/29/2010 02:05 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Testcase from Giel de Nijs <giel@vectorwise.com>
> on linux-ext4 list, ""Possible ext4 data corruption
> with large files and async I/O," on 29 Jan 2010
>
> ext4 put byte offsets in a block offset u32 container
> in the endio struct, so 4g wrapped to 0 leading to
> data corruption when the unwritten extent did not
> get converted.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
>
> ---

Hey Eric

Just going through the list trying to clean it up. Is this patch still
valid or does one of the other hole tests cover this?

Regards
--Rich