Re: FileFallocate misbehaving on XFS

Hi,

On 2024-12-10 09:34:08 +1100, Michael Harris wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 at 03:31, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > I found some references for bugs that were fixed in 5.13. But I think at least
> > some of this would persist if the filesystem ran into the issue with a kernel
> > before those fixes. Did you upgrade "in-place" from Rocky Linux 8?
> 
> We generally don't use "in place" OS upgrades - however we would
> usually have the databases on separate filesystem(s) to the OS, and
> those filesystem(s) would be preserved through the upgrade, while the
> root fs would be scratched.

Makes sense.


> A lot of the cases reported are on RL8. I will try to find out the
> history of the RL9 cases to see if the filesystems started on RL8.

That'd be helpful....


> Could you please provide me links for the kernel bugs you are referring to?

I unfortunately closed most of the tabs, the only one I could quickly find
again is the one referenced at the bottom of:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-xfs/msg55445.html

Greetings,

Andres