Re: CVS commit: src/sys

["J. Hannken-Illjes" <hannken%eis.cs.tu-bs.de@localhost>]

> On 07 Nov 2016, at 14:04, Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> In article <CAMnsW54_di9CBTC6cKMLnAN6J--uLJKhvSWVNe5q2Y+u3C6tpA%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
> JaromĆ­r DoleÄ ek  <jaromir.dolecek%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> 
>> Anyway, IMO eventual change to allow fsck to DTRT after crash in
>> ffs_truncate() should go separately from the crash fix.
> 
> While fsck could be fixed, IMO, it is best for the kernel to try to leave
> things as consistent as possible avoid scary noise from fsck and to keep
> recovery simpler.

It is impossible to fix fsck here:  fsck gets a file system where some
inodes have the same block allocated.  It is impossible to determine
which allocation is wrong as its inode was in truncation.

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