From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: sync fixes
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:40:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111221174038.GA7323@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111218154936.GA17626@infradead.org>
Sending out the intro mail again as it appears to have been eaten
alive by the list manager.
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:49:36AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> These two small fixes fix issues with peridic metadata writeback and
> sync not beeing able write file size updates to disk in some cases.
>
> The executive summary is: the writeback code slowly decided that the
> XFS behaviour in corner cases equals to livelocking, and XFS made some
> of this behaviour much more likely since the introduction of the
> delaylog mode.
---end quoted text---
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[not found] <20111218154936.GA17626@infradead.org>
2011-12-18 15:49 ` [PATCH 1/1] xfs: log the inode in ->write_inode calls for kupdate Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-20 21:19 ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-23 15:55 ` Mark Tinguely
2011-12-23 17:58 ` Ben Myers
2011-12-28 21:35 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2011-12-28 21:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-18 15:50 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfs: log all dirty inodes in xfs_fs_sync_fs Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-18 20:03 ` Sean Thomas Caron
2011-12-18 20:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-18 22:17 ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-18 22:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-20 20:08 ` [PATCH 2/2 v2] " Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-20 21:21 ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-23 15:55 ` Mark Tinguely
2011-12-23 21:47 ` Ben Myers
2011-12-26 12:13 ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-29 15:42 ` Ben Myers
2011-12-29 21:44 ` Dave Chinner
2012-01-03 15:48 ` Mark Tinguely
2011-12-21 17:40 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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