>>>>> Andrew Morton (AM) writes: AM> Well, one could just assume that the page has no disk mapping and go and AM> make the space reservation. Things will work out OK when we come to do AM> writepage(). AM> Or one could do both: call get_block() only if the page was inside i_size. well, even so we need to reserve not that block ony, but also needed metadata (for the worst case). probably this is work for get_block or some different method? anyway, we have to call it if the page is being written partial. thanks, Alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html