Re: Filling holes in ext2

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Aug 23 2001 - 14:23:42 EST


> The problem is that the on-disk metadata now says that that disk block
> is part of the file. So as the page is not up-to-date, the next read
> operation will go to the disk and fetch that block of garbage into the
> page cache.

So in actual fact the bug is the file system committing metadata too early
from prepare not commit

Alan
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