On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 03:26:25PM -0700, Mingming wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 23:22 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > With delalloc we don't do block allocation in the write_begin/write_end. > > So when using bmap we first need to flush data to the disk so that blocks > > get allocated and then call generic_block_bmap. > > > > Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > fs/ext4/inode.c | 11 +++++++++++ > > 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c > > index 7035621..cfeb869 100644 > > --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c > > +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c > > @@ -1833,6 +1833,17 @@ sector_t ext4_bmap(struct address_space *mapping, sector_t block) > > journal_t *journal; > > int err; > > > > + if (mapping_tagged(mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY) && > > + test_opt(inode->i_sb, DELALLOC)) { > > + /* > > + * With delalloc we want to sync the file > > + * so that we can make sure we allocate > > + * blocks for file > > + */ > > + filemap_fdatawrite(mapping); > > + filemap_fdatawait(mapping); > > + } > > + > > I would use filemap_write_and_wait(), it is essentially the same as > above two functions, but with a little extra checking. > Updated patch below ext4: Fix ext4_bmap to flush the data to the disk with delalloc From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> With delalloc we don't do block allocation in the write_begin/write_end. So when using bmap we first need to flush data to the disk so that blocks get allocated and then call generic_block_bmap. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 7035621..f1bd194 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -1833,6 +1833,16 @@ sector_t ext4_bmap(struct address_space *mapping, sector_t block) journal_t *journal; int err; + if (mapping_tagged(mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY) && + test_opt(inode->i_sb, DELALLOC)) { + /* + * With delalloc we want to sync the file + * so that we can make sure we allocate + * blocks for file + */ + filemap_write_and_wait(mapping); + } + if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_state & EXT4_STATE_JDATA) { /* * This is a REALLY heavyweight approach, but the use of -- 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