linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

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Message-ID: <20070805204305.GD25107@infradead.org>
Date:	Sun, 5 Aug 2007 21:43:05 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, miklos@...redi.hu, neilb@...e.de,
	dgc@....com, tomoki.sekiyama.qu@...achi.com, nikita@...sterfs.com,
	trond.myklebust@....uio.no, yingchao.zhou@...il.com,
	richard@....demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:57:02AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> For instance, some editors don't perform fsync-then-rename, but simply
> truncate the file when saving (because they want to preserve hard
> links).  With XFS, this tends to cause null bytes on crashes.  Since
> ext3 has got a much larger install base, this would result in lots of
> bug reports, I fear.

XFS has recently been changed to only updated the on-disk i_size after
data writeback has finished to get rid of this irritation.

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