From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751383AbWGJJEJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 05:04:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751386AbWGJJEJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 05:04:09 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:8521 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751383AbWGJJEH (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 05:04:07 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:06:35 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Michael Kerrisk Cc: michael.kerrisk@gmx.net, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vendor-sec@lst.de, lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br Subject: Re: splice/tee bugs? Message-ID: <20060710090635.GM4141@suse.de> References: <20060709111629.GV4188@suse.de> <20060709134703.0aa5bc41@home.brethil> <20060709175744.GZ4188@suse.de> <20060710062551.307040@gmx.net> <20060710064355.GB4141@suse.de> <20060710080917.286970@gmx.net> <20060710082423.GI4141@suse.de> <20060710084017.109310@gmx.net> <20060710084645.GJ4141@suse.de> <20060710085025.109290@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060710085025.109290@gmx.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 10 2006, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > So it's find being stuck, this doesn't look tee/splice related at all. > > Can you reproduce the same thing just by doing the find . > /dev/null? > > Hmm -- yes, I can. So you are right, it's unrelated to splice. > Not sure what's going on... Hmm duh, the one-in-five-runs should have run a bell (and I should have read the trace more carefully) - it's the access times being synced to disk. If you mount with noatime,nodiratime you should get consistent times across runs. So nothing unexpected there. -- Jens Axboe