Re: Backgrounded deletion, dirty writeback, security, and you

2017-03-24 Thread Daniel Phillips
Hi Raymond, On 03/23/2017 01:01 PM, Raymond Jennings wrote: Having recently tangled with this issue on ext4, I had a few questions: 1. Does the backend that actually digests an unlink request know how to handle outstanding dirty blocks belonging to a now nonexisting file? If a file has

Backgrounded deletion, dirty writeback, security, and you

2017-03-23 Thread Raymond Jennings
Having recently tangled with this issue on ext4, I had a few questions: 1. Does the backend that actually digests an unlink request know how to handle outstanding dirty blocks belonging to a now nonexisting file? If a file has been deleted, has no outstanding descriptors referencing it, then in