>> This paragraph in particular reminds me of an outstanding bug with
quoted text
>> O_DIRECT and ext*.  It isn't truncating partial allocations when a dio
>> fails with ENOSPC.  This was noticed by a user who saw that fsck found
>> bocks outside i_size in the file that saw ENOSPC if they tried to
>> unmount and check the volume after the failed write.
> 
> This patch should be the fix I guess
> 	http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/18/103

That's the thread related to the bug, yes, but that isn't the right fix
as David's later messages in the thread indicate.

- z
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