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* [PATCH] btrfs-progs: ctree.h: Sync the comment for btrfs_file_extent_item
@ 2019-12-17  6:52 Qu Wenruo
  2019-12-17  7:05 ` Su Yue
  2020-01-02 16:40 ` David Sterba
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Qu Wenruo @ 2019-12-17  6:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-btrfs

The comment about data checksum on disk_bytes is completely wrong.

Sync it with fixed kernel comment to avoid confusion.

Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
---
 ctree.h | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ctree.h b/ctree.h
index 3e50d086..9459adf1 100644
--- a/ctree.h
+++ b/ctree.h
@@ -916,13 +916,16 @@ struct btrfs_file_extent_item {
 	u8 type;
 
 	/*
-	 * disk space consumed by the extent, checksum blocks are included
-	 * in these numbers
+	 * disk space consumed by the data extent
+	 * Data checksum is stored in csum tree, thus no bytenr/length takes
+	 * csum into consideration.
+	 *
+	 * At this offset in the structure, the inline extent data starts.
 	 */
 	__le64 disk_bytenr;
 	__le64 disk_num_bytes;
 	/*
-	 * the logical offset in file blocks (no csums)
+	 * the logical offset in file blocks
 	 * this extent record is for.  This allows a file extent to point
 	 * into the middle of an existing extent on disk, sharing it
 	 * between two snapshots (useful if some bytes in the middle of the
@@ -930,7 +933,8 @@ struct btrfs_file_extent_item {
 	 */
 	__le64 offset;
 	/*
-	 * the logical number of file blocks (no csums included)
+	 * the logical number of file blocks. This always reflects the size
+	 * uncompressed and without encoding.
 	 */
 	__le64 num_bytes;
 
-- 
2.24.1


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