Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:09:50 -0600 | From | Eric Sandeen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH/RFC] pass dio_complete proper offset from finished_one_bio |
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Eric Sandeen wrote: > We saw problems w/ xfs doing AIO+DIO into a sparse file. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=217098 > > It seemed that xfs was doing "extent conversion" at the wrong offsets, so > written regions came up as unwritten (zeros) and stale data was exposed > in the region after the write. Thanks to Peter Backes for the very > nice testcase. > > This also broke xen with blktap over xfs.
Hrmph. Zach's changes in -mm magically made this go away... I was about to submit a proper patch against -mm but it seem to be not needed.
So, now digging around to see why that is, and what exactly "fixed" things.
-Eric
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