From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com>
Cc: jack@suse.cz, Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, bpm@sgi.com,
adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, mtk.manpages@gmail.com,
Ashish Sangwan <a.sangwan@samsung.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, lczerner@redhat.com,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] ext4: Add support FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE for fallocate
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 11:48:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140226164827.GB11452@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKYAXd9vTbjTnJOQ1Y=pi4QJSYj41fWsQgRD3Fkufskez2W-YA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 10:22:10AM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> >> + ret = ext4_es_remove_extent(inode, punch_start,
> >> + EXT_MAX_BLOCKS - punch_start - 1);
> >> + if (ret) {
> >> + up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
> >> + goto out_stop;
> >> + }
> >
> > Doing this at first is probably a bad idea; you should do this at the
> > end, and then completely invalidate the es cache for that inode. That
> > way, the right thing happens if you get an error in the middle
> > releasing the boxes and shifting the extents:
> Okay, I see.
Actually, thinking about this some more, we do want to do this first,
since if we error out, we do need to make sure the extent cache is
flushed.
> If there is error in the middle of extent shifting, the hole will
> present between the last shifted extent and the extent at which error
> happen so this will be consistent state.
> IMHO even if there is error in between the shift, filesystem will be
> in consistent state.
> Am I missing something?
No, I was wrong about that; you're right. The file will be in an
inconsistent statement, which will probably be highly confusing for
the application, but the file system will be fine.
So I withdraw my complaints. I'll do a bit more testing, but so far
the patch looks fine to me. Thanks for your reply and your work!
- Ted
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-26 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-20 15:07 [PATCH v6] ext4: Add support FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE for fallocate Namjae Jeon
2014-02-22 17:09 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-02-23 21:43 ` Dave Chinner
2014-02-24 1:22 ` Namjae Jeon
2014-02-26 16:48 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2014-02-27 4:03 ` Namjae Jeon
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