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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	jeff.liu@oracle.com, Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Introduce SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE to XFS V5
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:39:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120112163943.GA22223@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F0DFA11.7030305@sgi.com>

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 03:07:29PM -0600, Mark Tinguely wrote:
> 
> xfs_bmapi_read() returns the br_state == XFS_EXT_NORM for a hole.
> There are a couple places that a hole can trigger a data test.
> BTW, I could not generate a large enough hole that xfs_bmapi_read()
> would return as more than one hole entry, so I will ignore those
> situations and just list the couple places that a hole may be match
> a data rule:

We've been through this before, you need to overflow the 32-bit extent
length counter to get there.  Jeff, did you manage to create a test
case for that particular scenario?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-12 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-06 13:28 Introduce SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE to XFS V5 Jeff Liu
2012-01-10 17:18 ` Ben Myers
2012-01-11  5:45   ` Jeff Liu
2012-01-11 21:06     ` Mark Tinguely
2012-01-12 16:22       ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-01-12 17:50         ` Ben Myers
2012-01-11 21:07     ` Mark Tinguely
2012-01-12 13:29       ` Jeff Liu
2012-01-12 16:39       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2012-01-13  2:14         ` Jeff Liu
2012-01-11 21:12     ` Mark Tinguely
2012-01-12 13:52       ` Jeff Liu
2012-01-12 15:01         ` Mark Tinguely
2012-01-12 16:41           ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-01-12 17:39             ` Ben Myers
2012-01-13  2:41           ` Jeff Liu
2012-01-11 15:43 ` Ben Myers
2012-01-11 22:28   ` Ben Myers
2012-01-12 13:21     ` Jeff Liu
2012-01-12 12:53   ` Jeff Liu

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