On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:00:30PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > From: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@xxxxxxxxxx> > > fallocate() may potentially instantiate blocks past EOF, depending > on the flags used when it is called. > > e2fsck currently has a test for blocks past i_size, and it > sometimes trips up - noticeably on xfstests 013 which runs fsstress. > > This patch from Jiayang does fix it up - it (along with > e2fsprogs updates and other patches recently from Aneesh) has > survived many fsstress runs in a row. > > > (Eric Sandeen: removed ioctl interface and minor cleanups) > > Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> Applied to the maint branch, although I added back the ability to truncate the fallocated blocks via chattr. - Ted -- 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
