Re: FAT crashes when writing beyond file end

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Tue, 19 Oct 1999 16:17:25 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Mikulas Patocka wrote:

> Hi.
>
> >> (fat currently crashes when writing beyond file
> >> end, other filesystems aren't ported yet)
> > FAT should be OK now.
>
> Fat doesn't work again. Sometimes it locks up, sometimes it crashes on
> BUG. It seems to be bug in block_write_cont_page.

Oh, crap... How long ago had it started? Details on BUG() output? There
still are several races vetween write() and truncate(), can it be one of
them?
Down, not across...
Al

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