Re: [PATCH] Re: reiserfs: still problems with tail conversion

[Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@ITS.TUDelft.NL>]

On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 09:40:44PM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
> This patch should take care of the other cause for null bytes
> in small files.  It has been through a few hours of testing,
> with some of the usual load programs + Erik's code concurrently.
> 
> I'll let things run overnight to try and find more bugs.  The
> patch is against 2.4.2, and does a few things:
> 
> don't dirty the direct->indirect target until all direct items
> have been copied in.  Before it was dirtied for each direct item.
> 
> make the target up to date before dirtying (it was done after).
> 
> don't try to zero the unused part of the target until all bytes
> have been copied.  This was the big bug, it was zeroing previously
> copied bytes.
> 
> Any testing on non-production machines would be appreciated,
> I'll forward to Linus/Alan once I've gotten more feedback.

Yes, this did the trick, I can't repeat it anymore after a first run.
I'll let my code run for a couple of times to stress the system, but at
first glance the bug seems to be fixed.


Thanks for your efforts,
Erik

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