Re: sparse file handling bug in XFS

Christoph Hellwig
2011-06-16T17:57:50Z

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:33:49PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Actually this looks like it's a result of
>
> 6e857567dbbfe14dd6cc3f7414671b047b1ff5c7 xfs: don't truncate prealloc from frequently accessed inodes
>
> I thought Dave's patch from the "Re: drastic changes to allocsize semantics in or around 2.6.38?"
> thread would fix it, but it doesn't seem to. Here it is anyway ;)

It should fix the thing about the preallocation staying when removing
and recreating the file. Keeping pre-allocate blocks around otherwise
is a considered a feature.