linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] afs: Fix afs_write

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Date:   Mon, 14 Jun 2021 15:04:50 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        jlayton@...nel.org, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
        ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] afs: Fix afs_write_end() to handle short writes

Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> wrote:

> > Al Viro made such a change for Ceph - and we're writing, not reading.
> 
> I'd feel better if you said "xfstests doesn't show any new problems"
> than arguing to authority.

I'm kind of referring it to Al - I added him to the to: list.  And xfstests
doesn't show any new problems - but that doesn't mean that this path got
tested.

David