> > > Hello Zach, > > > > > > Here's an untested patch which > > > > Try testing it. It's easy with virtualization and xfstests. > > > > You'll find that sending to a file fails because each individual file > > write call that makes up a send starts at offset 0 -- at the start of > > the file. > > > > Getting this right means getting the semantics around updating the send > > descriptors f_pos right. It requires having a bit of a think about send > > semantics and f_pos update locking. > > Thanks for those informations Zach, > > I've tried btrfs test scripts related to ioctl in xfstests (tests/btrfs/025, > 035, 052, 055) > but was not able to trigger that problem. Do I have to create another script, > use some generic one > or maybe use big test/scratch devices ?
No idea, sorry. Maybe your patch is fine and I'm a dummy. Maybe you didn't test the kernel you thought you were testing. Maybe the test doesn't test what you changed. You'll have to do some investigating to find out. - z -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
