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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ntfs/ChangeLog')
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog b/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog index 9c4e78a..b1a9494 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog +++ b/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog @@ -2,20 +2,18 @@ ToDo/Notes: - Find and fix bugs. - Checkpoint or disable the user space journal ($UsnJrnl). - In between ntfs_prepare/commit_write, need exclusion between - simultaneous file extensions. Need perhaps an NInoResizeUnderway() - flag which we can set in ntfs_prepare_write() and clear again in - ntfs_commit_write(). Just have to be careful in readpage/writepage, - as well as in truncate, that we play nice... We might need to have - a data_size field in the ntfs_inode to store the real attribute - length. Also need to be careful with initialized_size extention in + simultaneous file extensions. This is given to us by holding i_sem + on the inode. The only places in the kernel when a file is resized + are prepare/commit write and truncate for both of which i_sem is + held. Just have to be careful in readpage/writepage and all other + helpers not running under i_sem that we play nice... + Also need to be careful with initialized_size extention in ntfs_prepare_write. Basically, just be _very_ careful in this code... - OTOH, perhaps i_sem, which is held accross generic_file_write is - sufficient for synchronisation here. We then just need to make sure - ntfs_readpage/writepage/truncate interoperate properly with us. - UPDATE: The above is all ok as it is due to i_sem held. The only - thing that needs to be checked is ntfs_writepage() which does not - hold i_sem. It cannot change i_size but it needs to cope with a - concurrent i_size change. + UPDATE: The only things that need to be checked are read/writepage + which do not hold i_sem. Note writepage cannot change i_size but it + needs to cope with a concurrent i_size change, just like readpage. + Also both need to cope with concurrent changes to the other sizes, + i.e. initialized/allocated/compressed size, as well. - Implement mft.c::sync_mft_mirror_umount(). We currently will just leave the volume dirty on umount if the final iput(vol->mft_ino) causes a write of any mirrored mft records due to the mft mirror @@ -32,6 +30,7 @@ ToDo/Notes: attack. Thanks to Carl-Daniel Hailfinger from SuSE for pointing this out. - Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_set(). + - Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/logfile.c::ntfs_{check,empty}_logfile(). 2.1.22 - Many bug and race fixes and error handling improvements. |
