linux-kernel - Re: XFS stat/statvfs problems with 2.6.38-rc2-00175-g6fb1b30

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Date:	Wed, 2 Feb 2011 17:18:45 -0800
From:	Andy Isaacson <adi@...apodia.org>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS stat/statvfs problems with 2.6.38-rc2-00175-g6fb1b30

On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 09:18:58AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 06:36:44PM -0800, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> > Since updating past 2.6.37, I'm seeing du(1) sometimes report files
> > taking up 8GB even though ls(1) reports the correct size (hundreds of
> 
> It'll be the excessive specualtive preallocation bug introduced in
> .38-rc1  which is fixed in .38-rc3.

Indeed, I've been running 2.6.38-rc3-00019-gafe8a88 for 18 hours now
with the same load and not seen any issues.

Thanks,
-andy
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