linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Don't report uninit extents past EOF invalid

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Date:	Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:49:03 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Whitney <enwlinux@...il.com>
Cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Don't report uninit extents past EOF invalid

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:31:12PM -0400, Eric Whitney wrote:
> Clearly, I wasn't thinking about the ABI at all - thanks for pointing out
> that misstep.
> 
> So, I'd like to withdraw that patch, please, and will post a V2 in a bit.
> Computing the eof_blk in that manner is better than an initial patch I had
> that worked but which was pretty ugly.

It didn't really make sense to put the eof_blk in the extent_info
structure, anyway, since it's not information about the that specific
extent.  It's an inode-specific value which is set via:

	handle->path[0].end_blk =
		(EXT2_I_SIZE(handle->inode) + fs->blocksize - 1) >>
		 EXT2_BLOCK_SIZE_BITS(fs->super);

Right?  So this is something you can calculate without making any
changes in lib/ext2fs/extent.c, unless I'm missing something.

							- Ted
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