linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe an nlink problem?

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Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 16:49:35 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	David Chinner <dgc@....com>
CC:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe an
 nlink problem?

David Chinner wrote:
> Ok, this is important to kow becase we merged a mod around that time
> that changes the way we handle the updates to the file size i.e. the
> fix for the NULL-files-on-crash problem:
>
> http://git2.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ba87ea699ebd9dd577bf055ebc4a98200e337542
>
> and that means the size of the file is not updated to the incore
> cached inode until after the data write is complete. The symptoms
> being seen would match with a inode-not-being-written-after-last-
> data-write-bug in this mod....
>   

Yes, that does look like a good candidate.  Should I try to
before-and-after this change?

    J
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