From: Andrey Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Q about pagecache data never written to disk
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 12:01:47 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040905120147.A9202@castle.nmd.msu.ru> (raw)
Let's suppose an mmap'ed (SHARED, RW) file has a hole.
AFAICS, we allow to dirty the file pages without allocating the space for the
hole - filemap_nopage just "reads" the page filling it with zeroes, and
nothing is done about the on-disk data until writepage.
So, if the page can't be written to disk (no space), the dirty data just
stays in the pagecache. The data can be read or seen via mmap, but it isn't
and never be on disk. The pagecache stays unsynchronized with the on-disk
content forever.
Is it the intended behavior?
Shouldn't we call the filesystem to fill the hole at the moment of the first
write access?
Andrey
next reply other threads:[~2004-09-05 8:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-05 8:01 Andrey Savochkin [this message]
2004-09-05 9:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-05 10:52 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-05 11:43 ` Andrey Savochkin
2004-09-05 21:00 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-06 7:06 ` Andrey Savochkin
2004-09-09 12:39 ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-09 13:15 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-09 13:37 ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-09 13:32 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-09 17:24 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 17:14 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-09 17:35 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-05 16:33 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-06 6:24 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-06 7:02 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-06 15:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
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