linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix suboptimal seek

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Message-ID: <20141129175255.GC4362@thunk.org>
Date:	Sat, 29 Nov 2014 12:52:55 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix suboptimal seek_{data,hole} extents traversial

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 06:02:02PM +0300, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
> FYI: inline_data feature is fatally broken

Thanks for finding the bugs!

> 2) ext4_inline_data_fiemap(0 ignores start and len arguments from ext4_filemap()
>    which obviously result in endless loop for anyone who want to use
>    fiemap for inline files (which my patch try to do)

Would this have been triggered using filefrag?  I just checked and
noticed we don't have a filefrag test in xfstests; of course it would
be impossible to test other than the filefrag -v command successfully
completed, but maybe it might be worth adding such a test.

	       	     	      	       	      	   - Ted
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