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From: Rob Sims <lkml-z@robsims.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Change in NFS client behavior
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 09:39:13 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050902153913.GA23328@robsims.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1125632597.8635.9.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:43:17PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> to den 01.09.2005 Klokka 19:38 (-0400) skreiv Trond Myklebust:
> > This is a consequence of 2.6 NFS clients optimising away unnecessary
> > truncate calls. Whereas this is correct behaviour for truncate(), it
> > appears to be incorrect for open(O_TRUNC).

> > In fact, local filesystems like xfs and ext3 appear to have the opposite
> > problem: they change ctime if you call ftruncate(0) on the zero-length
> > file, as the attached test shows.
 
The following patch fixes the problem, at least when applied against
2.6.8:

--- inode.c.orig        2005-08-31 16:54:27.000000000 -0600
+++ inode.c     2005-08-31 17:06:52.000000000 -0600
@@ -756,7 +756,7 @@
 	int error;
 
 	if (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) {
-		if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || attr->ia_size == i_size_read(inode))
+		if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
 	attr->ia_valid &= ~ATTR_SIZE;
 	}

> Could you please check if the following patch fixes NFS (and also the
> local filesystems) for you?
 
I'll try the latest in the flood today.  Thanks for all the help!
-- 
Rob

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-02 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-31 14:55 Change in NFS client behavior Rob Sims
2005-09-01 23:38 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-09-02  3:43   ` Trond Myklebust
2005-09-02  3:45     ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-02  3:52       ` Trond Myklebust
2005-09-02  4:07         ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-02  4:15           ` Trond Myklebust
2005-09-02  4:19             ` Trond Myklebust
2005-09-02  4:38               ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-07 14:25               ` Rob Sims
2005-09-02 15:39     ` Rob Sims [this message]
2005-09-02 15:06 ` Drop NFS speed on move from kernel 2.4 to 2.6 (was: Change in NFS client behavior) Tomasz Kłoczko

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