Data loss with O_SYNC and O_DSYNC using GFS2 when a node panics immediately after writing in RHEL 6 Update 4
Issue
- When I write data to my
GFS2filesystem withO_DSYNC, if the write is interrupted sometimes the data doesn't make it to disk.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons
- A Global Filesystem 2(
GFS2) - RHEL 6 Update 2:
kernel-2.6.32-220.26.1.el6 - RHEL 6 Update 3:
kernel-2.6.32-279.9.1.el6or later - RHEL 6 Update 4:
kernel-2.6.32-358.el6or later
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