package rtorrent tag 362096 + upstream confirmed thanks On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 03:44:47PM +0200, Jari Petter Sundell wrote: > On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Qingning Huo wrote: > > >On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:07:45AM +0200, Yann Vernier wrote: > >>Package: rtorrent > >>Version: 0.4.5-1 > >>Severity: normal > >> > >>While downloading to a nearly full disc, rtorrent will assume writes > >>succeed and download much more than it could store. I don't know if this > >>also makes it send incorrect data. > > > >Hi Yann, > > > >Thanks for your bug report. I am CC'ing the upstream author of rtorrent > >because this seems to be a upstream problem. > > > >Jari, what is your thinking of the bug report? > > Sorry for the late reply, got distracted by other things. > > Linux 2.4 used to send a SIGBUS when the client tried to write to a full > disk. According to my cursory tests, on 2.6 it silently drops the pages > when the disk is full and it is forced to page out the data. > > This would be detectable if I was using blocking msync as it would return > an error on full disk, non-blocking msync does not give any such error. To > fix this a separate thread could run msync (and hashing) in a blocking > manner. > > Due to time constraints I haven't had time to fix this. > > Rakshasa >
Hi, Thanks for your confirmation. I am tagging the bug as confirmed and upstream. Regards, Qingning
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