From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id p95IMQ2C132874 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2011 13:22:26 -0500 Received: from mailsrv14.zmi.at (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 9F4551C6B06B for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2011 11:22:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailsrv14.zmi.at (mailsrv14.zmi.at [212.69.164.54]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id UKAnMDZ9a57glwll for ; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:22:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Monnerie Subject: Re: SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 20:22:18 +0200 References: <4E887D7F.2010306@oracle.com> <201110050934.28021@zmi.at> <20111005093615.GQ3159@dastard> In-Reply-To: <20111005093615.GQ3159@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201110052022.19953@zmi.at> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1629795682993800905==" Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: xfs@oss.sgi.com Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Jeff Liu --===============1629795682993800905== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1865917.jtnClSfrVT"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --nextPart1865917.jtnClSfrVT Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mittwoch, 5. Oktober 2011 Dave Chinner wrote: > It's a data corruption problem, pure and simple.... Thanks for the thorough explanation. So it's a problem when a file has=20 recently been modified and not yet been written back to disk. Would it=20 be worth to force a flush to disk before SEEK_* operations can start? I=20 don't know if it's easier to do all the lookups you suggested, or do an=20 fsync. That could have it's own impacts, though. =2D-=20 mit freundlichen Gr=FCssen, Michael Monnerie, Ing. BSc it-management Internet Services: Prot=E9ger http://proteger.at [gesprochen: Prot-e-schee] Tel: +43 660 / 415 6531 // Haus zu verkaufen: http://zmi.at/langegg/ --nextPart1865917.jtnClSfrVT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk6MoFsACgkQzhSR9xwSCbSbAQCfbv/RCH3Q1kvzFvi1FJX8MOck aJkAn1rmPX1eLAJE93cRKzaaCl1uClpJ =bS6w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1865917.jtnClSfrVT-- --===============1629795682993800905== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs --===============1629795682993800905==--