From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
esandeen@redhat.com, jmoyer@redhat.com,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clear PageError bit in msync & fsync
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:31:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CDC1A5F.9050803@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101109210715.GJ3099@thunk.org>
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).
--
All rights reversed
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-11 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-09 16:44 Rik van Riel
2010-11-09 18:09 ` Valerie Aurora
2010-11-09 19:21 ` Jeff Layton
2010-11-09 19:33 ` Rik van Riel
2010-11-09 21:07 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-11-09 21:15 ` Rik van Riel
2010-11-09 21:41 ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-12 4:36 ` Rik van Riel
2010-11-12 15:52 ` Jeff Layton
2010-11-12 17:04 ` Rik van Riel
2010-11-09 21:44 ` Jan Kara
2010-11-11 16:31 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2010-11-09 21:21 ` Zan Lynx
2010-11-09 21:24 ` Rik van Riel
2010-11-12 20:51 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-11-12 21:36 ` Jeff Layton
2010-11-09 21:39 ` Jan Kara
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