On 11/04/2014 04:45 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2014 09:52:22 -0600 Goldwyn Rodrigues <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Filesize is not a good indication that the file needs to be synced.
>> An example where this breaks is:
>>   1. Open the file in O_SYNC|O_RDWR
>>   2. Read a small portion of the file (say 64 bytes)
>>   3. Lseek to starting of the file
>>   4. Write 64 bytes
>>
>> If the node crashes, it is not written out to disk because this
>> was not committed in the journal and the other node which reads
>> the file after recovery reads stale data (even if the write on
>> the other node was successful)
>>
>> ...
>>
>> --- a/fs/ocfs2/file.c
>> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
>> @@ -2381,9 +2381,7 @@ out_dio:
>>              if (ret < 0)
>>                      written = ret;
>>
>> -            if (!ret && ((old_size != i_size_read(inode)) ||
>> -                         (old_clusters != OCFS2_I(inode)->ip_clusters) ||
>> -                         has_refcount)) {
>> +            if (!ret) {
>>                      ret = 
>> jbd2_journal_force_commit(osb->journal->j_journal);
>>                      if (ret < 0)
>>                              written = ret;
>
> Can we have a signed-off-by for this, please?
>

Oops. Missed that.

Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <[email protected]>


-- 
Goldwyn

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