linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix bigalloc regression

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Date:	Mon, 6 Jan 2014 15:07:05 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Whitney <enwlinux@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix bigalloc regression

On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 01:46:19PM -0500, Eric Whitney wrote:
> Commit f5a44db5d2 introduced a regression on filesystems created with
> the bigalloc feature (cluster size > blocksize).  It causes xfstests
> generic/006 and /013 to fail with an unexpected JBD2 failure and
> transaction abort that leaves the test file system in a read only state.
> Other xfstests run on bigalloc file systems are likely to fail as well.
> 
> The cause is the accidental use of a cluster mask where a cluster
> offset was needed in ext4_ext_map_blocks().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@...il.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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