Hello
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 05:57, suzuki wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:37:49 -0800
> > Suzuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>* Do not add save links for O_DIRECT writes.
> >>
> >>We add a save link for O_DIRECT writes to protect the i_size against the
> >>crashes before we actually finish the I/O. If we hit an -ENOSPC in
> >>aops->prepare_write(), we would do a truncate() to release the blocks which
> >>might have got initialized. Now the truncate would add another save link
> >>for the same inode causing a reiserfs panic for having multiple save links
> >>for the same inode.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > OK...
> >
> > But how does this patch fix it? It removes a lot of code - how come we
> > don't need it any more?
>
> We were adding save links for appending writes only. The links were
> removed once we finish the write operation successfully.
>
> Now we don't add the save links at all.
>
The removed code was to return file to a length it had before direct writing
far past end started
if that direct write did not complete due to unclean shutdown.
I am not sure why it was needed. I guess that if long append (direct of
bufferred) did not complete - it is ok if file becomes longer than it was
before.
However, reiserfs seems to fail to update ondisk inode file size when appending
big holes. The included patch fixes that.
Please, apply
From: Vladimir Saveliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To write far past the end of a file reiserfs appends a hole first.
While the hole grows file size in ondisk inode has to be updated
so that in case of unclean shutdown it matches real file size.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Saveliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff -puN fs/reiserfs/file.c~reiserfs-update-file-size-on-hole-creation
fs/reiserfs/file.c
---
linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/fs/reiserfs/file.c~reiserfs-update-file-size-on-hole-creation
2006-11-29 17:54:03.000000000 +0300
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2-vs/fs/reiserfs/file.c 2006-11-29 17:54:03.000000000
+0300
@@ -406,6 +406,8 @@ static int reiserfs_allocate_blocks_for_
we restart it. This will also free the path.
*/
if (journal_transaction_should_end
(th, th->t_blocks_allocated)) {
+ inode->i_size = cpu_key_k_offset(&key) +
+ (to_paste << inode->i_blkbits);
res =
restart_transaction(th, inode,
&path);
_
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