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Message-ID: <20070511003257.GL86004887@sgi.com> Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 10:32:57 +1000 From: David Chinner <dgc@....com> To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@....com>, 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? On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 04:49:35PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > 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? Yes please! Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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