From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 21:43:05 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8 Message-ID: <20070805204305.GD25107@infradead.org> References: <20070803123712.987126000@chello.nl> <20070804063217.GA25069@elte.hu> <20070804070737.GA940@elte.hu> <20070804103347.GA1956@elte.hu> <20070804094119.81d8e533.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <87wswbjejw.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <20070804230007.30857453.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <87r6miza5t.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87r6miza5t.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Florian Weimer Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, miklos@szeredi.hu, neilb@suse.de, dgc@sgi.com, tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com, nikita@clusterfs.com, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, yingchao.zhou@gmail.com, richard@rsk.demon.co.uk List-ID: On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:57:02AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > For instance, some editors don't perform fsync-then-rename, but simply > truncate the file when saving (because they want to preserve hard > links). With XFS, this tends to cause null bytes on crashes. Since > ext3 has got a much larger install base, this would result in lots of > bug reports, I fear. XFS has recently been changed to only updated the on-disk i_size after data writeback has finished to get rid of this irritation. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org