linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH]ext4: fix s_dirty_blocks_counter if block allocation failed with nodelalloc

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Date:	Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:06:41 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Akira Fujita <a-fujita@...jp.nec.com>
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]ext4: fix s_dirty_blocks_counter if block allocation
	failed with nodelalloc

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 07:21:54PM +0900, Akira Fujita wrote:
> ext4: Fix s_dirty_blocks_counter if block allocation failed with nodelalloc
> 
> From: Akira Fujita <a-fujita@...jp.nec.com>
> 
> If block allocation failed after marking claimed blocks as dirty blocks
> with nodelalloc, we have to subtract these blocks from
> s_dirty_blocks_counter in error handling.
> Otherwise s_dirty_blocks_counter goes wrong so that
> filesystem's free blocks decreases incorrectly.

Why did the block allocation fail ? With delayed allocation ENOSPC
should not happen during block allocation. That would mean we did
something wrong in block reservation.

> 
> This issue was reported as ext4 online defrag's bug by Li Zefan.
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=122697235715170&w=2

-aneesh
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