I've got this on 286'th MOUNT_OPTIONS=-onoload We assumes that we are protected from ENOSPC during ext4_convert_unwritten_extents() by passing EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_PRE_IO on submitting AIO which split extent via ext4_split_unwritten_extents() But this is not sufficient: submit_aio Fallocate worker ->ext4_map_blocks(lblk, len) ->ext4_ext_map_blocks( ) file: U1---------------------U2|_____EOF ->ext4_split_unwritten_extents file: U1------U1|U2---len----U2|_____EOF ->ext4_fallocate(lblk, len+len2) ->ext4_map_blocks() ->ext4_ext_map_blocks() U2: Grows file: U1-------U1|U2----len+len2--U2|__EOF worker_tread ->ext4_end_io_work ->ext4_convert_unwritten_extents ->ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents ## Discover that new split required in order to get: file: U1-------U1|U2----len----U2|U3--len2--U2__EOF This procedure fail with ENOSPC -- 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