Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:29:30 -0600 | | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | | Subject | Re: Wrong DIF guard tag on ext2 write |
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On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 09:49:51AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > > I agree that a block based retry would close all the holes ... it just > > doesn't look elegant to me that the fs will already be repeating the I/O > > if it changed the page and so will block. > > We might not ever repeat the IO. We might change the page, write it, > change it again, truncate the file and toss the page completely.
Why does it matter that it was never written in that case?
-- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."
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