Re: 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe an nlink problem?

Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10T23:49:43Z

David Chinner wrote:
> Ok, this is important to kow becase we merged a mod around that time
> that changes the way we handle the updates to the file size i.e. the
> fix for the NULL-files-on-crash problem:
>
> http://git2.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ba87ea699ebd9dd577bf055ebc4a98200e337542
>
> and that means the size of the file is not updated to the incore
> cached inode until after the data write is complete. The symptoms
> being seen would match with a inode-not-being-written-after-last-
> data-write-bug in this mod....
>

Yes, that does look like a good candidate. Should I try to
before-and-after this change?

J