linux-ext4 - question about append direct io

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <55C32854.1050501@oracle.com>
Date:	Thu, 06 Aug 2015 17:26:44 +0800
From:	ryding <ryan.ding@...cle.com>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: question about append direct io

Hi all,

Sorry for bothering.

I see ext4 add inode to orphan when doing append direct io. Is this used 
to roll back the old isize when a crash is happened during the direct 
io? Is there other purpose to do so?

Thanks,
Ryan
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html