Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762704AbXEJXtq (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 19:49:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755657AbXEJXtj (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 19:49:39 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:40195 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754858AbXEJXtj (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 19:49:39 -0400 Message-ID: <4643AF8F.5040705@goop.org> Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 16:49:35 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Chinner CC: Chuck Ebbert , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Matt Mackall , xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe an nlink problem? References: <20070509231643.GM85884050@sgi.com> <4642598E.3000607@goop.org> <20070510000119.GO85884050@sgi.com> <46426194.3040403@goop.org> <46439185.5060207@redhat.com> <464392B4.3070009@goop.org> <464393E1.3050705@redhat.com> <46439491.9010604@goop.org> <20070510225834.GF86004887@sgi.com> <4643A5B2.3060906@goop.org> <20070510232729.GH86004887@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20070510232729.GH86004887@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 913 Lines: 22 David Chinner wrote: > Ok, this is important to kow becase we merged a mod around that time > that changes the way we handle the updates to the file size i.e. the > fix for the NULL-files-on-crash problem: > > http://git2.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ba87ea699ebd9dd577bf055ebc4a98200e337542 > > and that means the size of the file is not updated to the incore > cached inode until after the data write is complete. The symptoms > being seen would match with a inode-not-being-written-after-last- > data-write-bug in this mod.... > Yes, that does look like a good candidate. Should I try to before-and-after this change? J - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/