linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] unionfs: restructure unionfs

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Date:	Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:09:43 -0500
From:	Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc:	Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] unionfs: restructure unionfs_setattr 

In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712182213300.28390@...nde.wat.veritas.com>, Hugh Dickins writes:
> In order to fix unionfs truncation, we need to move the lower notify_change
> out of the loop in unionfs_setattr.  But when I came to do that, I couldn't
[...]

Hugh, I want to understand how patches 3/4 and 4/4 are related.  In patch 3
you say "in order to fix truncation" but you mention a truncation problem
only in patch 4; is there a patch ordering problem, or they're both related
to the same issue (with 3/4 being a code cleanup, and 4/4 actually fixing
the problem)?

What tests did you conduct to tickle this truncation problem: I assume
fsx-linux through unionfs, mounted on tmpfs?  Did that include both series
of patches (your 9 tmpfs patches, plus the two memcgrpoup?).

Thanks,
Erez.
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