linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: retry failed direct IO allocations

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Date:	Fri, 2 Oct 2009 22:04:36 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: retry failed direct IO allocations

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 05:39:11PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On a 256M filesystem, doing this in a loop:
>
>        xfs_io -F -f -d -c 'pwrite 0 64m' test
>        rm -f test
>
> eventually leads to ENOSPC.  (the xfs_io command does a
> 64m direct IO write to the file "test")
>
> As with other block allocation callers, it looks like we need to
> potentially retry the allocations on the initial ENOSPC.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>

Thanks, added to the ext4 patch queue.

						- Ted
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