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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, darrick.wong@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: convert COW blocks to real blocks before unwritten extent conversion
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 18:38:25 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161011073825.GI23194@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1476104794-28175-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de>

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 03:06:34PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> We need to splice COW blocks we've completed in xfs_end_io_direct_write
> into the data fork before converting unwritten extents.  Otherwise
> xfs_bmapi_write might first allocate blocks for any holes in the data
> fork, which isn't only not needed but also harmful as it might cause
> reserved block underruns in the transaction.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Committed and pushe dout to the for-next branch (commit
feac470e3642e8956ac9b7f14224e6b301b9219d). If there's no more
late-breaking, urgent fixes, then this is what I'll ask Linus to
pull tomorrow....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-11  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-10 13:06 [PATCH] xfs: convert COW blocks to real blocks before unwritten extent conversion Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-11  7:38 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2016-10-11 18:39   ` Darrick J. Wong

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