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Message-ID: <20171014145057.36c5cvd2p5avfmah@thunk.org> Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 10:50:57 -0400 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> To: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com> Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2/2] libext2fs: Skip start_blk adjustment when stride and flex_bg is set On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 03:35:39PM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote: > Currently some stride optimization is done in > ext2fs_allocate_group_table() by adjusting start_blk block where we > start allocating block, or inode bitmaps. > > However in flex_bg case this is currently useless since the values are > going to be overridden anyway. Moreover in flex_bg case the group might > already be full and the stride optimization will fail. As a result file > system resize might fail needlessly in some situations. > > It can be shown by this example: > > mke2fs -b 1024 -i 1024 -E stride=8192 -t ext4 /dev/loop0 1024000 > resize2fs /dev/loop0 102400000 > resize2fs 1.43.5 (04-Aug-2017) > Resizing the filesystem on /dev/loop0 to 102400000 (1k) blocks. > ./resize/resize2fs: Could not allocate block in ext2 filesystem while trying to resize /dev/loop0 > Please run 'e2fsck -fy /dev/loop0' to fix the filesystem > after the aborted resize operation. > > Fix this by not doing the stride adjustment in case of flex_bg. > > Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com> Thanks, applied. - Ted
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