On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 21:33:29 -0400 > From: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> > To: Lukáš Czerner <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix punch hole on files with indirect mapping > > On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 06:28:57PM +0200, Lukáš Czerner wrote: > > > > It does. But this is not exactly a critical bug and it has been > > there since the introduction of punch hole for indirect file. But I > > guess it's better to fix it sooner rather than later, so I am fine > > with this. > > One of the reasons why I want to get this fixed sooner rather than > later is that even when testing a stock ext4 file system, fsstress can > potentially create indirect mapped files that could then get punched. > So I wonder if bug might be responsible for some of the very random > failures that I've been seeing in my testing... > > - Ted
Fair enough, we can wait with my patch for the next merge window. Thanks! -Lukas
