From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id pBLHeh4P045538 for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:40:44 -0600 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.166.109.252]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id W3mBq4Skp3VQ3lpQ for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:40:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1RdQ9e-0002k5-L0 for xfs@oss.sgi.com; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:40:38 +0000 Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:40:38 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: sync fixes Message-ID: <20111221174038.GA7323@infradead.org> References: <20111218154936.GA17626@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111218154936.GA17626@infradead.org> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: xfs@oss.sgi.com Sending out the intro mail again as it appears to have been eaten alive by the list manager. On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:49:36AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > These two small fixes fix issues with peridic metadata writeback and > sync not beeing able write file size updates to disk in some cases. > > The executive summary is: the writeback code slowly decided that the > XFS behaviour in corner cases equals to livelocking, and XFS made some > of this behaviour much more likely since the introduction of the > delaylog mode. ---end quoted text--- _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs