In message <[email protected]>, Nick Piggin writes:
[...]
> Hmm, looks like jffs2_write_end is writing more than we actually ask it
> to, and returns that back.
>
> unsigned aligned_start = start & ~3;
>
> and
>
> if (end == PAGE_CACHE_SIZE) {
> /* When writing out the end of a page, write out the
> _whole_ page. This helps to reduce the number of
> nodes in files which have many short writes, like
> syslog files. */
> start = aligned_start = 0;
> }
>
> These "longer" writes are fine, but they shouldn't get propagated back
> to the vm/vfs. Something like the following patch might fix it.
>
>
> --Boundary-00=_lnFGHwOggSRGKPd
> Content-Type: text/x-diff;
> charset="utf-8";
> name="jffs2-writtenlen-fix.patch"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Content-Disposition: attachment;
> filename="jffs2-writtenlen-fix.patch"
Nick, the patch worked. All of my unionfs-over-jffs2 tests passed.
Thanks,
Erez.
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