Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:07:04 +0100 | From | Erik Mouw <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: reiserfs: still problems with tail conversion |
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On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 09:40:44PM -0500, Chris Mason wrote: > This patch should take care of the other cause for null bytes > in small files. It has been through a few hours of testing, > with some of the usual load programs + Erik's code concurrently. > > I'll let things run overnight to try and find more bugs. The > patch is against 2.4.2, and does a few things: > > don't dirty the direct->indirect target until all direct items > have been copied in. Before it was dirtied for each direct item. > > make the target up to date before dirtying (it was done after). > > don't try to zero the unused part of the target until all bytes > have been copied. This was the big bug, it was zeroing previously > copied bytes. > > Any testing on non-production machines would be appreciated, > I'll forward to Linus/Alan once I've gotten more feedback.
Yes, this did the trick, I can't repeat it anymore after a first run. I'll let my code run for a couple of times to stress the system, but at first glance the bug seems to be fixed.
Thanks for your efforts, Erik
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