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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 11:16:03 +0200 From: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> To: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>, Eryu Guan <eguan@...hat.com>, xfs@....sgi.com, axboe@...com, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com Subject: Re: [PATCH block/for-linus] writeback: fix syncing of I_DIRTY_TIME inodes On Mon 17-08-15 16:02:54, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, Jan. > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 01:14:09PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > So the patch looks good to me. But the fact that is fixes Eryu's problem > > means there is something fishy going on. Either inodes get wrongly attached > > Seriously, it shouldn't affect size syncing or xfs but then again my > understanding of xfs is severely limited. Well, i_size == 0 in XFS usually means that writeback didn't get to flushing delay allocated pages - inode size on disk gets increased only after the pages are written out in ->end_io callback. So at least this part makes some sense to me. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@...e.com> SUSE Labs, CR -- 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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