linux-kernel - Re: [Bug 14354] Re: ext4 increased intolerance to unclean shutdown?

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Message-ID: <f7848160910291425q30377641qfe23e74fbc643d89@mail.gmail.com>
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
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