Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add ext3 data=guarded mode | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Date | Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:04:36 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 15:42 -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Here's an updated (v4) patch for ext3 data=guarded mode. The first two > patches in the series are unchanged, and it looks like Linus pulled them > in this morning. > > This version fixes the bug Mike Galbraith hit. The problem was with > writes to the last block in the file that made the file bigger but > didn't actually add a new block. Since the block wasn't new, it > wouldn't get sent through the guarded code and the on disk i_size wasn't > always updated.
FWIW, I booted my backup fs drive mounted data=guarded, and have been hammering it steadily since 6 A.M. with no hint of trouble.
-Mike
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