From: Mingming Subject: Re: ext4 preallocation corruption with truncate Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:39:44 -0700 Message-ID: <1244680784.5256.28.camel@mingming-laptop> References: <1244676537.5256.27.camel@mingming-laptop> <20090611001729.GA7170@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , sandeen@redhat.com To: Theodore Tso Return-path: Received: from e39.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.160]:35296 "EHLO e39.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750736AbZFKAjr (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:39:47 -0400 Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e39.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n5B0ZkNl011034 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:35:46 -0600 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.2) with ESMTP id n5B0dl52199280 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:39:47 -0600 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n5B0dkUB030960 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:39:47 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20090611001729.GA7170@mit.edu> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 20:17 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 04:28:57PM -0700, Mingming wrote: > > We have seen data lost issue after a file being preallocated, write, > > then truncated. > > > > Ted could we send this fix to stable asap? Thanks. > > Aneesh had already sent this patch to linux-ext4, and I've already > sent a pull request of all of the accumulated ext4 fixes to Linus. > Once Linus pulls it into mainline, I'll assemble the set of fixes that > that need to go to stable, and send it off to stable@kernel.org. > > - Ted Thanks, I overlooked Aneesh's post. Mingming