linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Only zero partial blocks in ext4_zero_partial

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Message-ID: <20130620150103.GD28309@thunk.org>
Date:	Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:01:03 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Only zero partial blocks in
 ext4_zero_partial_blocks()

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:14:33AM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> Currently if we pass range into ext4_zero_partial_blocks() which covers
> entire block we would attempt to zero it even though we should only zero
> unaligned part of the block.
> 
> Fix this by checking whether the range covers the whole block skip
> zeroing if so.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>

Applied, thanks.

						- Ted
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