[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 0/3] ocfs2: Tail zeroing fixes.

Joel Becker joel.becker at oracle.com
Wed Jul 7 04:16:04 PDT 2010


	This is version 3 of the ocfs2 tail zeroing fixes.  This version
has some major changes.  Tao correctly pointed out that we can have
multiple extents past i_size due to unwritten extents.  I've reworked
the zeroing code to walk them all.  Since I had to do that, and I had to
handle refcounted extents, I end up fixing a refcount bug with
non-sparse extentds.
	There are now three patches.  The first changes our zeroing
code to go page-by-page at the high level.  The second actually changes
the zeroing code.  The final patch, limiting zeroing to the end of a
write, is unchanged from v2.

Joel




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