Re: [RFC PATCH] ext4: Fix fallocate to update the file size in each transaction.

["Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 10:03:23AM -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 17:14 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 03:30:57AM -0800, Mingming Cao wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 16:23 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> 
> > > > @@ -2814,8 +2834,7 @@ long ext4_fallocate(struct inode *inode, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
> > > >  		return -ENODEV;
> > > > 
> > > >  	block = offset >> blkbits;
> > > > -	max_blocks = (EXT4_BLOCK_ALIGN(len + offset, blkbits) >> blkbits)
> > > > -			- block;
> > > > +	max_blocks = EXT4_BLOCK_ALIGN(len, blkbits) >> blkbits;
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Not sure about this change... Other than this looks fine to me
> > > 
> > 
> > max_blocks actually represented the number of blocks that we are
> > requesting. The above change makes it simple.
> 
> I think it's too simple.  :-(
> 
> Take an example of an empty file (no allocated blocks), offset=0xC00,
> length = 0x800, block_size = 0x1000.
> 
> The existing code will result in max_blocks = 2, accounting for both the
> blocks that the allocation spans, but your new code will result in
> max_blocks = 1.

Fixed with the above example added to comment.

Thanks
-aneesh