From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: Trammell Hudson <Trammell.Hudson@twosigma.com>,
Sean Noonan <Sean.Noonan@twosigma.com>,
Martin Bligh <Martin.Bligh@twosigma.com>,
Ian Baum <Ian.Baum@twosigma.com>,
Stephen Degler <Stephen.Degler@twosigma.com>,
"'linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com'" <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: sparse file handling bug in XFS
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:57:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110616175743.GA20570@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DFA3E7D.4030408@sandeen.net>
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:33:49PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Actually this looks like it's a result of
>
> 6e857567dbbfe14dd6cc3f7414671b047b1ff5c7 xfs: don't truncate prealloc from frequently accessed inodes
>
> I thought Dave's patch from the "Re: drastic changes to allocsize semantics in or around 2.6.38?"
> thread would fix it, but it doesn't seem to. Here it is anyway ;)
It should fix the thing about the preallocation staying when removing
and recreating the file. Keeping pre-allocate blocks around otherwise
is a considered a feature.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-16 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-16 14:49 sparse file handling bug in XFS Sean Noonan
2011-06-16 16:08 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-06-16 17:33 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-06-16 17:57 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-06-16 21:08 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-06-19 22:27 ` Dave Chinner
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