linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] e2fsck: do not allow initialized blocks pass i

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Date:   Thu, 28 Jun 2018 18:07:47 -0600
From:   Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
To:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsck: do not allow initialized blocks pass i_size

On Jun 28, 2018, at 4:45 PM, Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 04:20:48PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>> That's true for stock ext4, but as I mentioned in my other email, Lustre
>> will allocate up to the PAGE_SIZE boundary because the RDMA will overwrite
>> the whole page regardless of where i_size is, which results in blocks
>> being allocated beyond i_size for PAGE_SIZE > blocksize.
> 
> But does an RDMA operation actually do a block allocation?  Really?
> And if it is willing to do a block allocation, why is it not willing
> to bump i_size?

It's not that the RDMA does block allocation, but rather that the RDMA
always transfers and writes the full PAGE_SIZE of data, even if i_size
is less than the end of the last block.  This simplifies the RDMA code
so that it can always write the data instead of having to stop at i_size.

Cheers, Andreas

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