Re: ftruncate-mmap: pages are lost after writing to mmaped file.

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On Thu 02-04-09 22:24:29, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Thursday 02 April 2009 09:36:13 Ying Han wrote:
> > Hi Jan:
> >     I feel that the problem you saw is kind of differnt than mine. As
> > you mentioned that you saw the PageError() message, which i don't see
> > it on my system. I tried you patch(based on 2.6.21) on my system and
> > it runs ok for 2 days, Still, since i don't see the same error message
> > as you saw, i am not convineced this is the root cause at least for
> > our problem. I am still looking into it.
> >     So, are you seeing the PageError() every time the problem happened?
> 
> So I asked if you could test with my workaround of taking truncate_mutex
> at the start of ext2_get_blocks, and report back. I never heard of any
> response after that.
> 
> To reiterate: I was able to reproduce a problem with ext2 (I was testing
> on brd to get IO rates high enough to reproduce it quite frequently).
> I think I narrowed the problem down to block allocation or inode block
> tree corruption because I was unable to reproduce it with that hack in
> place.
  Nick, what load did you use for reproduction? I'll try to reproduce it
here so that I can debug ext2...

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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