Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 04 Sep 2002 16:56:09 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.20pre5aa1 |
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > ... > > The 2.5 libaio that works with this kernel and 2.5 is here: > > http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/libaio/libaio-0.3.15-2.5.tar.gz
Thanks for doing this. The lack of AIO-aware applications and of testing tools for AIO is a bit of a worry at present.
> Only in 2.4.20pre5aa1: 00_prepare-write-fixes-3-1 > > Also check the i_size is in sync with the last block we allocated in > the metadata, it won't be updated in the commit_write if prepare_write > is failing.
That's the right thing to do I guess. Is this a problem in practice? If prepare_write() fails, generic_file_write() will truncate back to the current i_size?
> Only in 2.4.20pre5aa1: 9920_kgdb-1.gz > > kgdb from akpm.
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