Messages in this thread | | | From | Dave Kleikamp <> | Subject | Re: kernel bug in jfs, kernel 2.4.21-pre3-ac4 + recent listfix (fwd) | Date | Mon, 20 Jan 2003 10:43:30 -0600 |
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On Monday 20 January 2003 10:35, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:26:09AM -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > > A recent change to JFS has the resize code determine the volume > > size from sb->s_bdev->bd_inode->i_size. However, LVM doesn't > > update this size when resizing the volume, so JFS doesn't see the > > new size until the volume is completely unmounted and re-mounted. > > A fix to revert to an earlier behavior that should work is in > > Marcelo's bk tree and will be available in -pre4. > > It doesn't make sense to work around this issue in JFS, LVM needs a > proper fix so that others don't get beaten by this.
You're probably right. However, in the 2.4 tree, no other file system is using bd_inode->i_size. -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center
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