linux-kernel - Re: jffs2: -ENOSPC when truncating file?!

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Message-ID: <20080224065751.GA31293@lazybastard.org>
Date:	Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:57:52 +0100
From:	Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: jffs2: -ENOSPC when truncating file?!

On Sun, 24 February 2008 09:36:07 +0900, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 00:57 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > 
> > I'm trying to free space by truncating big file, and I get:
> > 
> > root@...-gta01:~# ls -al gps.nmea 
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root      2332070 Feb 19 22:13 gps.nmea
> > root@...-gta01:~# > gps.nmea 
> > -sh: cannot create gps.nmea: No space left on device
> > root@...-gta01:~# rm gps.nmea
> > root@...-gta01:~# > gps.nmea
> > root@...-gta01:~# 
> 
> You need to write a log entry indicating the new length of the file.
> There is no space for new log entries.
> 
> There is a special case for removal -- 'rm gps.nmea' would work. Perhaps
> we should add a special case for truncation too, so that it can also use
> the extra pool of free space.

Could a naïve implementation of this get exploited by doing a large
number of truncates that just shave single bytes off various files?

Looks like the safe way to do it would be to write out a replacement
node for the truncated node, if the special case ever triggers.

Jörn

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