linux-kernel - Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH v4 1/2] f2fs: correct i

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Date:   Fri, 7 Oct 2022 22:42:53 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>
To:     Daeho Jeong <daeho43@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH v4 1/2] f2fs: correct i_size change for atomic
 writes

On 2022/10/7 22:22, Daeho Jeong wrote:
>>
>> Fine to me.
>>
>> But another question is, now it allows GC to migrate blocks belong
>> to atomic files, so, during migration, it may update extent cache,
>> once largest extent was updated, it will mark inode dirty, but after
>> this patch, it may lose the extent change? thoughts?
>>
> 
> Oh, I missed that case. Maybe we could prevent updating the i_size of
> atomic files in f2fs_update_inode() while allowing inode dirtying.

Agreed. :)

Thanks,