http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14354 --- Comment #145 from Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> 2009-10-29 21:39:06 --- Parag Warudkar wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Aneesh Kumar K.V > <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Can you try this patch ? >> >> commit a8836b1d6f92273e001012c7705ae8f4c3d5fb65 >> Author: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Tue Oct 27 15:36:38 2009 +0530 >> >> ext4: discard preallocation during truncate >> >> We need to make sure when we drop and reacquire the inode's >> i_data_sem we discard the inode preallocation. Otherwise we >> could have blocks marked as free in bitmap but still belonging >> to prealloc space. > > Just wanted to let you know that I have applied this patch and one > unclean shutdown later it seems to have not given me any trouble. > > I will continue testing it - hopefully I won't have to reformat this > time ( every time I tested previously I ended up having weird issues > that I decided to get rid of by reformatting /). I've been running my testcase, and I just hit the usual corruption with this patch in place after 8 iterations, I'm afraid. -Eric > Parag > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html