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

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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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 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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