From: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe an nlink problem?
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 10:32:57 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070511003257.GL86004887@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4643AF8F.5040705@goop.org>
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 04:49:35PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> David Chinner wrote:
> > Ok, this is important to kow becase we merged a mod around that time
> > that changes the way we handle the updates to the file size i.e. the
> > fix for the NULL-files-on-crash problem:
> >
> > http://git2.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ba87ea699ebd9dd577bf055ebc4a98200e337542
> >
> > and that means the size of the file is not updated to the incore
> > cached inode until after the data write is complete. The symptoms
> > being seen would match with a inode-not-being-written-after-last-
> > data-write-bug in this mod....
> >
>
> Yes, that does look like a good candidate. Should I try to
> before-and-after this change?
Yes please!
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-11 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-09 21:09 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe an nlink problem? Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-09 21:55 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-09 22:17 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-09 22:44 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-09 22:50 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-09 23:16 ` David Chinner
2007-05-09 23:30 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 0:01 ` David Chinner
2007-05-10 0:04 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 0:49 ` David Chinner
2007-05-10 0:54 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 1:26 ` David Chinner
[not found] ` <46433049.4020003@goop.org>
2007-05-10 15:38 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-12 11:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-12 12:46 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-14 20:16 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-14 20:27 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 21:13 ` David Chinner
2007-05-10 21:23 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-10 21:32 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 21:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 21:41 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-05-10 21:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 21:51 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-05-10 21:54 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 22:58 ` David Chinner
2007-05-10 23:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 23:27 ` David Chinner
2007-05-10 23:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-11 0:32 ` David Chinner [this message]
2007-05-11 14:48 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-12 7:56 ` David Chinner
2007-05-12 11:23 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-12 13:51 ` David Chinner
2007-05-12 14:56 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-15 0:14 ` David Chinner
2007-05-15 19:24 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-10 23:07 ` David Chinner
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