linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] f2fs: compress: disallow disabling compress on non-empty compressed file

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Date:   Wed, 27 Oct 2021 12:26:01 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>
To:     Hyeong-Jun Kim <hj514.kim@...sung.com>,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
Cc:     Sungjong Seo <sj1557.seo@...sung.com>,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] f2fs: compress: disallow disabling compress on
 non-empty compressed file

On 2021/10/27 12:16, Hyeong-Jun Kim wrote:
> Compresse file and normal file has differ in i_addr addressing,
> specifically addrs per inode/block. So, we will face data loss, if we
> disable the compression flag on non-empty files. Therefore we should
> disallow not only enabling but disabling the compression flag on
> non-empty files.
> 
> ---
> v2:
>   - check F2FS_HAS_BLOCKS() instead of i_size
> 
> Fixes: 4c8ff7095bef ("f2fs: support data compression")
> Signed-off-by: Sungjong Seo <sj1557.seo@...sung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hyeong-Jun Kim <hj514.kim@...sung.com>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>

Thanks,