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Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: > Hello > > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 21:30, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >>On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Malte Schröder wrote: >> >>>>So something interesting is definitely going on, but I don't know exactly >>>>what it is. Why does reiserfs do the truncate as part of a close, if the >>>>same inode is actually mapped somewhere else? > > > on file close reiserfs tries to "pack" content of last incomplete page of file into metadata blocks. > It should not if that page is still mapped somewhere. > It does not actually truncate, it calls the same function which does truncate, but file size does not change. That's racy, unfortunately :P > > Please consider the below patch. That seems like it would work. Probably papers over your truncate-inside-i_size as well. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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