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From: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
To: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: invalidate gap cache when writing extents last block
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 17:55:36 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DCCF208.3040704@sx.jp.nec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305268616-5167-1-git-send-email-lczerner@redhat.com>

2011/05/13 15:36, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> That is because due to defensive programming we planted a lot of
> BUG_ON's to prevent the length of the gap cache to be zero, but in this
> case it actually will be zero, because there will be no gap at the end
> of the file.

Um, I think there is a block (blocksize -1 byte) in gap.
And this gap should be used for the next block searching.
According to ext4_ext_in_cache(), len=0 means the special case
which we have no cache extent, so len=0 should be disallowed.

Moreover, if we create the file which has 2^32-1 offset,
we can't get extent which starts from this offset with FIEMAP ioctl.
That's why I think the maximum file size should be 2^32-1 * blocksize.

Regards,
Kazuya Mio

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-13  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-11  8:08 [PATCH] ext4: Fix max file size of extent format file Kazuya Mio
2011-05-13  6:34 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-05-13  6:36   ` [PATCH] ext4: invalidate gap cache when writing extents last block Lukas Czerner
2011-05-13  8:55     ` Kazuya Mio [this message]
2011-05-24  8:33       ` Kazuya Mio
2011-05-24  8:57         ` Lukas Czerner
2011-05-25  8:59           ` Kazuya Mio
2011-06-03 17:35   ` [PATCH] ext4: Fix max file size of extent format file Andreas Dilger
2011-06-03 18:08     ` Lukas Czerner

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