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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: adrian@humboldt.co.uk (Adrian Cox)
Cc: akpm@zip.com.au (Andrew Morton), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Filling holes in ext2
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 20:23:42 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15a04s-0004QE-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B8556B6.7040700@humboldt.co.uk> from "Adrian Cox" at Aug 23, 2001 08:17:10 PM

> The problem is that the on-disk metadata now says that that disk block 
> is part of the file. So as the page is not up-to-date, the next read 
> operation will go to the disk and fetch that block of garbage into the 
> page cache.

So in actual fact the bug is the file system committing metadata too early
from prepare not commit

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-23 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-22 17:21 Adrian Cox
2001-08-22 18:34 ` Andrew Morton
2001-08-22 18:59   ` Adrian Cox
2001-08-23 17:22   ` Adrian Cox
2001-08-23 17:46     ` Andrew Morton
2001-08-23 19:17       ` Adrian Cox
2001-08-23 19:23         ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-08-23 19:41         ` Andrew Morton
2001-08-23 21:21           ` Adrian Cox
2001-08-23 17:47     ` Alan Cox

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