From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Thu, 10 May 2007 16:49:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.goop.org (gw.goop.org [64.81.55.164]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l4ANnefB028196 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 16:49:41 -0700 Message-ID: <4643AF8F.5040705@goop.org> Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 16:49:35 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe an nlink problem? References: <20070509231643.GM85884050@sgi.com> <4642598E.3000607@goop.org> <20070510000119.GO85884050@sgi.com> <46426194.3040403@goop.org> <46439185.5060207@redhat.com> <464392B4.3070009@goop.org> <464393E1.3050705@redhat.com> <46439491.9010604@goop.org> <20070510225834.GF86004887@sgi.com> <4643A5B2.3060906@goop.org> <20070510232729.GH86004887@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20070510232729.GH86004887@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: David Chinner Cc: Chuck Ebbert , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Matt Mackall , xfs@oss.sgi.com 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