linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] fix file system corruption [ was Re: mballoc errors ]

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Message-ID: <47F20459.1010801@bull.net>
Date:	Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:46:01 +0200
From:	Valerie Clement <valerie.clement@...l.net>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix file system corruption [ was Re: mballoc errors ]

Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Regarding the test case that you have i am not yet sure what is causing
> the file system corruption. It cannot be ext4_ext_zeroout or 
> ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized because they are used only when we are
> writing to falloc area and you are not preallocating anything in your
> test. Did you make sure you are not using delalloc ? All my tests are
> run with stable branch.

Oh I'm sorry, I was not enough precise in my previous mails.
When I disable the delalloc feature, I don't reproduce the problem.
So, there is another problem. I will look into the delalloc code.
   Valerie
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