Re: [PATCH v6] fat: additions to support fat_fallocate

[OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>]

Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com> writes:

>>> We considered after your advice before. we reach for the conclusion
>>> that use this method.
>>> because, Cluster is already allocated in fat fallocate and
>>> when we write with radom offset over i_size on fallocated region, It
>>> will be hit by fat cache in fat_bmap of get_block, which mean buffer
>>> is not set to new.
>>
>> Hm, how does it hit to fat cache? I think fat_alloc_clusters() and
>> fat_chain_add() doesn't update fat cache, right? I.e. initial write
>> after fallocate() should not hit fat cache over i_size?
>
> Ah.. Sorry for wrong reply. old memory make me confusing.
> By allocating cluster in fat fallocate, when write, fat_bmap of
> get_block return physical sector number.
> So buffer is not set to new in _fat_get_block.
>
> When we fallocate with keep size on -> only clusters are added to the
> fat chain calling fat_get_cluster(),and add the cluster to cluster
> chain.
> This doesn’t call fat_get_block() .

Right.

> Now when we try to write in the fallocated region in the
> fat_write_begin() when it is called first time it checks that the
> mismatch is present between the mmu_private and mmu_actual (i.e., the
> file has pre-allocated blocks), and hence zero out the region ;
> Since buffer_new() is not set for fallocated region by fat_get_block()
> , we explicitly  zero out the lseek'ed region using
> “fat_zero_falloc_area” and normal write occurs beyond that,and i_size
> is updated accordingly.

Yes. So I'm saying fixing fat_get_block() would not be hard.

For example, add new size the disk_size, totally 3 sizes - 1) i_size 2)
mmu_private (aka, initialized size) 3) disk_size (aka, uninitialized
size).

When called fat_get_block(), it checks the region between mmu_private
and disk_size. If block hits that region, block is uninitialized area,
so return as buffer_new().

Like this, I think it is not hard. Please consider like above example
too.

Thanks.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>