Re: ceph, cifs, nfs, fuse: boolean and / or confusion

From: Sage Weil
Date: Tue Dec 13 2011 - 00:30:22 EST


On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:45:11 -0500
> Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 18:39 -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >
> > > As far as NFS is concerned, it reverts a regression. NFS only used to
> > > run revalidate_file_size() for SEEK_END prior to commit
> > > 06222e491e663dac939f04b125c9dc52126a75c4. I accept that we now also need
> > > to run it for SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA, but we've never had to do so for
> > > SEEK_SET and SEEK_CUR.
> >
> > BTW: The regression exists in 3.1, so this is probably a stable
> > candidate...
> >
>
> I'd prefer not to merge this one unless all four fs maintainers have
> reviewed and preferably tested it. Also, in view of your earlier email
> the changelog for this patch needs updating for NFS and probably other
> filesystems.
>
> So please prepare and send the NFS patch, with a Reported-by:roel?

I'll push a fix for the ceph bit through my tree. Thanks, roel!

sage
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