linux-ext4 - Re: Bug: Large writes can fail on ext4 if the write buffer is not empty

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Date:	Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:28:36 +0800
From:	Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@...il.com>
To:	Jouko Orava <jouko.orava@...sinki.fi>
Cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug: Large writes can fail on ext4 if the write buffer is not empty

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Jouko Orava <jouko.orava@...sinki.fi> wrote:
>> No, RHEL kernels have the same limits.
>
> That means at least 2.6.32.x stable series will suffer from the same bug.
> I'll see if I can test those mainline kernels too this weekend.

Great!  Please test it in stable kernels because I am afraid that I
couldn't do this work at this weekend. :-)

Regards,
Zheng

>
>> Whoops, I just filed one as well.  I'll dup yours to mine since I've already
>> started the process there.
>
> That's excellent, thank you. Mine was unacceptably terse anyway :)
>
> Thanks,
>  Jouko
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