>> This paragraph in particular reminds me of an outstanding bug with >> O_DIRECT and ext*. It isn't truncating partial allocations when a dio >> fails with ENOSPC. This was noticed by a user who saw that fsck found >> bocks outside i_size in the file that saw ENOSPC if they tried to >> unmount and check the volume after the failed write. > > This patch should be the fix I guess > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/18/103 That's the thread related to the bug, yes, but that isn't the right fix as David's later messages in the thread indicate. - z -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html