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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:25:17 -0400 From: Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@...il.com> To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Bug 14354] Re: ext4 increased intolerance to unclean shutdown? On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > Can you try this patch ? > > commit a8836b1d6f92273e001012c7705ae8f4c3d5fb65 > Author: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> > Date: Tue Oct 27 15:36:38 2009 +0530 > > ext4: discard preallocation during truncate > > We need to make sure when we drop and reacquire the inode's > i_data_sem we discard the inode preallocation. Otherwise we > could have blocks marked as free in bitmap but still belonging > to prealloc space. Just wanted to let you know that I have applied this patch and one unclean shutdown later it seems to have not given me any trouble. I will continue testing it - hopefully I won't have to reformat this time ( every time I tested previously I ended up having weird issues that I decided to get rid of by reformatting /). Parag -- 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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