Re: 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe an nlink problem?

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>]

On May 10 2007 14:54, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>>> What CPU architecture is this happening on? Not i686 with PAE by
>>>> any chance?
>>>>       
>>> Yes.  Why?
>>
>> I have a bug report where NFS files are corrupted only with PAE clients.
>> Corruption is at the end of the (newly untarred) files. Doesn't happen
>> without PAE.
>
>Hm, suggestive, but I'm not convinced.  Two differences to this situation:
>
>   1. Immediately after the clone ("untar"), the contents are completely
>      OK; it's only after a umount/mount cycle to problems appear

And if you do a "sync" rather than umount/mount?

>   2. There's no corruption as such; the files are just too short.  And
>      it seems they're at a previously OK length, not some random size.


	Jan
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