From: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
To: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs-dev <xfs-dev@sgi.com>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Review: fix null files exposure growing via truncate V2
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:08:41 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46A57B49.9030106@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070619063714.GP86004887@sgi.com>
Looks good to me. Thanks for fixing it Dave.
David Chinner wrote:
> Test 140 fails due to the ftruncate() logging the new file size
> before any data that had previously been written had hit the
> disk. IOWs, it violates the data write/inode size update rule
> that fixes the null files problem.
>
> The fix here checks when growing the file as to whether it the disk
> inode size is different to the in memory size. If they are
> different, we have data that needs to be written to disk beyond the
> existing on disk EOF. Hence to maintain ordering we need to flush
> this data out before we log the changed file size.
>
> Version 2:
>
> o Only flush the range between the old on disk size and the current
> in memory size.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-24 4:33 UTC|newest]
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2007-06-19 6:37 Review: fix null files exposure growing via truncate V2 David Chinner
2007-07-24 4:08 ` Lachlan McIlroy [this message]
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