From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 03:34:23 -0700 Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 03/15] xfs: zero posteof blocks when cloning above eof In-Reply-To: <153870029414.29072.6572683664719818617.stgit@magnolia> References: <153870027422.29072.7433543674436957232.stgit@magnolia> <153870029414.29072.6572683664719818617.stgit@magnolia> Message-ID: <20181006103423.GB25747@infradead.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: david@fromorbit.com, sandeen@redhat.com, Zorro Lang , linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 05:44:54PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > From: Darrick J. Wong > > When we're reflinking between two files and the destination file range > is well beyond the destination file's EOF marker, zero any posteof > speculative preallocations in the destination file so that we don't > expose stale disk contents. The previous strategy of trying to clear > the preallocations does not work if the destination file has the > PREALLOC flag set. But I think we should still drop speculative delalloc preallocations instead of zeroing them in addition to zeroing of any real blocks in the data fork.