From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: Oops with ext4 from 2.6.27-rc3 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:45:34 -0400 Message-ID: <20080813224534.GG6142@mit.edu> References: <47983.10.5.1.205.1218652098.squirrel@webmail.lugor.de> <200808132255.10194.mail@eworm.de> <20080813210408.GC6142@mit.edu> <200808132307.07437.mail@eworm.de> <20080813220100.GE6142@mit.edu> <48A35E0B.5050907@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christian Hesse , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Sandeen Return-path: Received: from www.church-of-our-saviour.org ([69.25.196.31]:40566 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750875AbYHMWpi (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:45:38 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48A35E0B.5050907@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 05:19:55PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > I don't :), but I tried a quick reproducer anyway and couldn't hit it ... > > mkfs.ext3, mount, create non-extents file > umount, tune2fs to ext4 > mount as ext4, write to file, open file O_TRUNC > > ... didn't oops for me :( > In this particular case, we need to open the file for appending, write to it, and then unlink it in order to trigger it, I think. - Ted