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Message-ID: <20150622012050.GQ29480@thunk.org>
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 21:20:50 -0400
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: don't retry file block mapping on bigalloc fs with
non-extent file
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 02:25:57PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> ext4 isn't willing to map clusters to a non-extent file. Don't signal
> this with an out of space error, since the FS will retry the
> allocation (which didn't fail) forever. Instead, return EUCLEAN so
> that the operation will fail immediately all the way back to userspace.
>
> (The fix is either to run e2fsck -E bmap2extent, or to chattr +e the file.)
>
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Applied, thanks.
- Ted
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