Re: question about ext4/inode.c

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>]

Julia Lawall wrote:
> The function ext4_da_writepages_trans_blocks contains the following code:
> 
>         if (!(inode->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL) &&
>             (max_blocks > EXT4_MAX_TRANS_DATA))
>                 max_blocks = EXT4_MAX_TRANS_DATA;
> 
> 
> Elsewhere the constant EXT4_EXTENTS_FL is used as follows:
> 
> EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL
> 
> Should that be done in ext4_da_writepages_trans_blocks as well?
> 
> thanks,
> julia

Ouch, yes, looks like a bug.  I don't think that value would ever be set 
on the vfs inode's i_flags so we're always going down that path.

It's probably not catastrophic; if I'm reading it right we are just 
being more conservative all the time.

Want to send a patch? :)

-Eric