Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:31:27 -0500 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] clear PageError bit in msync & fsync |
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On 11/09/2010 04:07 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> Do we guarantee that the application will get EIO at least once? I > thought there were issues where the error bit could get lost if the > page writeback was triggered by sync() run by a third-party > application.
Andrew, both the current kernel before and after my patch does not guarantee the behaviour Ted has pointed out is required.
Johannes came up with a way to guarantee that - I'll send in a patch for that today. That patch will obsolete the patch I sent before (I don't think you've applied it yet).
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