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Re: [PATCH for-4.2 v2 3/3] block/file-posix: Let post-EOF fallocate seri


From: Christoph Hellwig
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-4.2 v2 3/3] block/file-posix: Let post-EOF fallocate serialize
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 08:27:51 -0800
User-agent: Mutt/1.12.1 (2019-06-15)

On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 04:25:10PM +0100, Max Reitz wrote:
> The XFS kernel driver has a bug that may cause data corruption for qcow2
> images as of qemu commit c8bb23cbdbe32f.  We can work around it by
> treating post-EOF fallocates as serializing up until infinity (INT64_MAX
> in practice).

This has been fixed in the kernel a while ago.  I don't think it makes
sense to work around it in qemu.



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