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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. - 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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