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Message-ID: <yq1poziwvxf.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>
Date:	Mon, 09 Nov 2015 19:16:28 -0500
From:	"Martin K. Petersen" <mkp@....net>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>,
	"linux-ext4\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: discard_zeroes_data questions

>>>>> "Darrick" == Darrick J Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com> writes:

Darrick> Last winter I sent in a patch to invalidate the page cache
Darrick> after a discard:
Darrick> https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=142249686225748&w=2

Darrick> ...because e2fsck gets confused it discards part of a d_z_d=1
Darrick> device and gets non-zeroed buffers back (from the page cache!)
Darrick> immediately after.

Darrick> But it never went in.  Should I resend it?

Yes, please! I thought this had gone in...

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering
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