From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
ak@suse.de, taka@valinux.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zerocopy NFS updated
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 08:39:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020413083952.A32648@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020412.213011.45159995.taka@valinux.co.jp> <20020412143559.A25386@wotan.suse.de> <20020412222252.A25184@kushida.apsleyroad.org> <20020412.143150.74519563.davem@redhat.com> <20020413012142.A25295@kushida.apsleyroad.org>
> I wonder if it is reasonable to depend on that: -- i.e. I'll only ever
> see zeros, not say random bytes, or ones or something. I'm sure that's
> so with the current kernel, and probably all of them ever (except for
> bugs) but I wonder whether it's ok to rely on that.
With truncates you should only ever see zeros. If you want this guarantee
over system crashes you need to make sure to use the right file system
though (e.g. ext2 or reiserfs without the ordered data mode patches or
ext3 in writeback mode could give you junk if the system crashes at the
wrong time). Still depending on only seeing zeroes would
seem to be a bit fragile on me (what happens when the disk dies for
example?), using some other locking protocol is probably more safe.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-13 6:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20020410.190550.83626375.taka@valinux.co.jp.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-04-10 19:32 ` [PATCH] zerocopy NFS updated Andi Kleen
2002-04-11 2:30 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-11 6:46 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-11 6:48 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-11 7:41 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-11 7:52 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-11 11:38 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-11 11:36 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-11 18:00 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-04-11 13:16 ` Andi Kleen
2002-04-11 17:36 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-04-16 0:17 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-04-16 15:37 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-04-11 17:33 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-04-12 8:10 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-12 12:30 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-12 12:35 ` Andi Kleen
2002-04-12 21:22 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-04-12 21:31 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-13 0:21 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-04-13 6:39 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2002-04-13 8:01 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-13 19:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-04-13 19:37 ` Andi Kleen
2002-04-13 20:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-04-24 23:11 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-04-25 17:11 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-04-13 18:52 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-04-14 0:07 ` Keith Owens
2002-04-14 8:19 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-04-14 8:40 ` Keith Owens
2002-04-12 21:39 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-15 1:30 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-15 4:23 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-16 1:03 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-16 1:41 ` Jakob Østergaard
2002-04-16 2:20 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-18 5:01 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-18 7:58 ` Jakob Østergaard
2002-04-18 8:53 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-04-19 3:21 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-19 9:18 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-04-20 7:47 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-25 12:37 ` Possible bug with UDP and SO_REUSEADDR. Was " Terje Eggestad
2002-04-26 2:43 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-26 7:38 ` Terje Eggestad
2002-04-29 0:41 ` Possible bug with UDP and SO_REUSEADDR David Schwartz
2002-04-29 8:06 ` Terje Eggestad
2002-04-29 8:44 ` David Schwartz
2002-04-29 10:03 ` Terje Eggestad
2002-04-29 10:38 ` David Schwartz
2002-04-29 14:20 ` Terje Eggestad
[not found] ` <200204192128.QAA24592@popmail.austin.ibm.com>
2002-04-20 10:14 ` [PATCH] zerocopy NFS updated Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-20 15:49 ` Andrew Theurer
2002-04-10 10:05 Hirokazu Takahashi
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