Re: Filling holes in ext2

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Andrew Morton wrote:
> Ah. Now I'm with you. Yes, we need a better cleanup facility
> to handle this.
>
> We can sort-of fudge it with commit_write():
[snip]
> Which is OK for mid-file blocks, but will cause i_size to be extended
> at eof, which probably isn't too bad. Needs more thought.

That certainly stops it happening. Does anybody think that extending
i_size in this particular corner case is harmful?

As Alan said, the bug is the file system committing metadata too early,
and I suspect that ext2 is not the only culprit.

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Adrian Cox   http://www.humboldt.co.uk/
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