XFS speculative allocation beyond eof not cleared when files written over NFS.

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

Files written over NFSv3 to a XFS-backed partition use more disk blocks than they should and never shrink.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
  • XFS
  • NFS3

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