linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH -v2] ext4: Don't mark the filesystem with errors if we fail to fallocate.

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Date:	Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:24:43 -0800
From:	Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	tytso@....edu, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] ext4: Don't mark the filesystem with errors if we
	fail to fallocate.

On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 09:14 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> IF we fail allocate blocks don't call ext4_error. Also don't hide errors
> from ext4_get_blocks_wrap
> 
Aced. And added to patch queue.

Thanks,
Mingming
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  fs/ext4/extents.c |   11 ++++++-----
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> index 5b22f71..9a27e88 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> @@ -2653,13 +2653,14 @@ retry:
>  		ret = ext4_get_blocks_wrap(handle, inode, block,
>  					  max_blocks, &map_bh,
>  					  EXT4_CREATE_UNINITIALIZED_EXT, 0);
> -		WARN_ON(ret <= 0);
>  		if (ret <= 0) {
> -			ext4_error(inode->i_sb, "ext4_fallocate",
> -				    "ext4_ext_get_blocks returned error: "
> -				    "inode#%lu, block=%u, max_blocks=%lu",
> +#ifdef EXT4FS_DEBUG
> +			WARN_ON(ret <= 0);
> +			printk(KERN_ERR "%s: ext4_ext_get_blocks "
> +				    "returned error inode#%lu, block=%u, "
> +				    "max_blocks=%lu", __FUNCTION__,
>  				    inode->i_ino, block, max_blocks);
> -			ret = -EIO;
> +#endif
>  			ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
>  			ret2 = ext4_journal_stop(handle);
>  			break;

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