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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, bfoster@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] xfs: don't fail unwritten extent conversion on writeback due to edquot
Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 00:13:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200519071334.GA6323@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <158984935767.619853.515097571114256885.stgit@magnolia>

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 05:49:17PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
> 
> During writeback, it's possible for the quota block reservation in
> xfs_iomap_write_unwritten to fail with EDQUOT because we hit the quota
> limit.  This causes writeback errors for data that was already written
> to disk, when it's not even guaranteed that the bmbt will expand to
> exceed the quota limit.  Irritatingly, this condition is reported to
> userspace as EIO by fsync, which is confusing.
> 
> We wrote the data, so allow the reservation.  That might put us slightly
> above the hard limit, but it's better than losing data after a write.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

Looks good:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-19  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-19  0:49 [PATCH 0/3] xfs: fix stale disk exposure after crash Darrick J. Wong
2020-05-19  0:49 ` [PATCH 1/3] xfs: force writes to delalloc regions to unwritten Darrick J. Wong
2020-05-19 12:45   ` Brian Foster
2020-05-19  0:49 ` [PATCH 2/3] xfs: don't fail unwritten extent conversion on writeback due to edquot Darrick J. Wong
2020-05-19  7:13   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-05-19 12:46   ` Brian Foster
2020-05-19  0:49 ` [PATCH 3/3] xfs: measure all contiguous previous extents for prealloc size Darrick J. Wong
2020-05-19 12:48   ` Brian Foster
2020-05-20 13:23     ` Brian Foster
2020-05-20 19:48       ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-05-21 12:24         ` Brian Foster
2020-05-19 12:54   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-20 21:17     ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-05-21  9:31       ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-21 17:19         ` Darrick J. Wong

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