linux-kernel - Re: [inline_data] ext4: Stale flags before sync when convert to non-inline

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Message-ID: <358aaf68-0618-41e6-9adf-04e211eb690e@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 21:56:28 -0800
From: Daniel Dawson <danielcdawson@...il.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>
Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [inline_data] ext4: Stale flags before sync when convert to
 non-inline

On 11/28/23 10:15 PM, Daniel Dawson wrote:
> When a file is converted from inline to non-inline, it has stale flags 
> until sync.

> Why is this a problem? Because some code will fail under such a 
> condition, for example, lseek(..., SEEK_HOLE) will result in ENOENT.


Just tested. Still happening on 6.8-rc1.

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