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