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Date:	Tue, 9 Apr 2013 12:07:21 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Lukáš Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
To:	Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@...il.com>
cc:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	tytso@....edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Do not convert to indirect with bigalloc enabled

On Mon, 8 Apr 2013, Zheng Liu wrote:

> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 14:10:11 +0800
> From: Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@...il.com>
> To: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
> Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, tytso@....edu
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Do not convert to indirect with bigalloc enabled
> 
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 12:18:05PM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> > With bigalloc feature enabled we do not support indirect addressing at all
> > so we have to prevent extent addressing to indirect addressing
> > conversion in this case. The problem has been introduced with the commit
> > "ext4: support simple conversion of extent-mapped inodes to use i_blocks"
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
> > ---
> >  fs/ext4/extents.c |    4 ++++
> >  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> > index 6c5a70a..ddb6628 100644
> > --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
> > +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> > @@ -4735,6 +4735,10 @@ int ext4_ind_migrate(struct inode *inode)
> >  	    (!ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)))
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> >  
> > +	if (EXT4_HAS_RO_COMPAT_FEATURE(inode->i_sb,
> > +				       EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_BIGALLOC))
> > +		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > +
> >  	down_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
> >  	ret = ext4_ext_check_inode(inode);
> >  	if (ret)
> 
> I am wandering whether ext4_ind_migrate needs to be moved into
> fs/ext4/migrate.c file.  Maybe it is better.

You're right, it make much more sense. I'll prepare a patch.

Thanks!
-Lukas

> 
> Regards,
>                                                 - Zheng
> 
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