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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Akira Fujita <a-fujita@rs.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]ext4: fix s_dirty_blocks_counter if block allocation failed with nodelalloc
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:06:41 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081201103641.GA13242@skywalker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4933BAC2.6080004@rs.jp.nec.com>

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 07:21:54PM +0900, Akira Fujita wrote:
> ext4: Fix s_dirty_blocks_counter if block allocation failed with nodelalloc
> 
> From: Akira Fujita <a-fujita@rs.jp.nec.com>
> 
> If block allocation failed after marking claimed blocks as dirty blocks
> with nodelalloc, we have to subtract these blocks from
> s_dirty_blocks_counter in error handling.
> Otherwise s_dirty_blocks_counter goes wrong so that
> filesystem's free blocks decreases incorrectly.

Why did the block allocation fail ? With delayed allocation ENOSPC
should not happen during block allocation. That would mean we did
something wrong in block reservation.

> 
> This issue was reported as ext4 online defrag's bug by Li Zefan.
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=122697235715170&w=2

-aneesh

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-01 10:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-01 10:21 [PATCH]ext4: fix s_dirty_blocks_counter if block allocation failed with nodelalloc Akira Fujita
2008-12-01 10:36 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2008-12-04  1:27   ` Akira Fujita
2008-12-04  5:07     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-12-04  8:32       ` Akira Fujita
2008-12-04  8:38         ` Li Zefan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-04 14:04 [PATCH] ext4: Fix " Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-12-04 18:19 ` Mingming Cao

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