Re: status of the 'null' issue

[Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>]

On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 17:48, Matthijs van der Klip wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Could someone tell me what the status of the 'null' issue is?:
> 
> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#nulls
> 
> 
> Has any solution or workaround been developed yet? Can we expect a
> solution in the next official release?
> 

The 2.4.18 kernel in cvs and the patches has some code which removes
the synchronous transactions from xfs. For the most part these tended
to be the culprit in that an inode size update was forced out into
the log long before the data was.

So, while it is still possible, it is less likely than it was.

Steve


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