On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 06:02:43PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi (miklos@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > I do not know fuse good enough, but it looks like if your patch only > > fixes issue for pages which are in splice buffer during invalidation, > > any subsequent call for splice() will get correct new data (at least > > invoke readpage(s)), but in the description of error there was a > > long timeout between reading and writing, so it was a fresh splice() > > call, which suddenly started to return errors. > > > > Is it possible that by having uptodate bit in place, but page was > > actually freed but not removed from all trees and so on, so it > > masked read errors? This may be not the right conclusion though :) > > No, the mechanics of the problem are well understood. Only the > solution is problematic :) Then why not fix filesystems to set error bit on all broken reads, if you sure it is the case? -- Evgeniy Polyakov -- 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
