linux-ext4 - Re: Fwd: Ext4 bug with fallocate

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Message-ID: <a125a870910220037j1ceeb19du73c977b8ce3df2b7@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:37:09 +0200
From:	Fredrik Andersson <nablaman@...il.com>
To:	Mingming <cmm@...ibm.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: Ext4 bug with fallocate

> The link you provided about is related to a race between restart a
> transaction from truncate, and the other process is doing something like
> block allocation to the same file. Do you have another threads
> allocating blocks while you are truncating?

No, there is only a single thread in this program. No other thread or
process is accessing the same file or file descriptor.

/Fredrik
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