Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 May 2007 16:49:35 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe an nlink problem? |
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David Chinner wrote: > Ok, this is important to kow becase we merged a mod around that time > that changes the way we handle the updates to the file size i.e. the > fix for the NULL-files-on-crash problem: > > http://git2.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ba87ea699ebd9dd577bf055ebc4a98200e337542 > > and that means the size of the file is not updated to the incore > cached inode until after the data write is complete. The symptoms > being seen would match with a inode-not-being-written-after-last- > data-write-bug in this mod.... >
Yes, that does look like a good candidate. Should I try to before-and-after this change?
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