linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 0/6 v2] Introduce FALLOC_FL_ZERO

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Date:	Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:00:30 -0400
From:	tytso@....edu
To:	Lukáš Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>@thunk.org
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6 v2] Introduce FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE flag for fallocate

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 01:59:35PM +0100, Lukáš Czerner wrote:
> > The "dev2" branch in the ext4 git tree has all the patches in this
> > series (1, 2, and 5) --- 3 was included earlier applied on top of the
> > "dev" branch.  The "test" branch is the dev2 branch with the
> > xfs-collapse-range branch pulled in, which actually enables the
> > ZERO_RANGE flags (as well as the collapse range patches).
> > 
> > When I tried testing with the "test" branch, things failed pretty
> > quickly.  I've attached two of these in this patch set.  I'm guessing
> > it's some kind of memory corruption problem.  These failures are
> > pretty repeatable, and it fails fast.

Can you let me know when you've had a chance to take a look at this
failure?  Once we put back the EOFBLOCK_FL code, I suspect we should
be fine with the first two patches in this patch series, but patch #5
plus the xfs-collapse-range branch appears to still have issues.

Thanks!!

						- Ted
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