there is a BUG in EXT4 inlinedata feature when the disk is full(0B). tast case: step1: use the dd to make the disk full,has 0B remained. step2: touch a inlinedata file echo -n "123456" >> test.txt step3: make the inlinedata file test.txt convert to extent block. echo -n "123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890">>test.txt the step3 will write failed.and print the BUG Backtrace: page:c1963bc0 count:-1 mapcount:0 mapping: (null) index:0x0 page flags:0x40000000() Backtrace: [<c004e180>] (dump_backtrace + 0x0/0x12c) from [<c07724ac>] (dump_stack +0x18/0x1c) r6:c0043a84 r5:c0bb688 r4:c1963bc0 r3:00000000 [<c0772494>] (dump_stack + 0x0/0x1c) from [<c00f6dd4>] (bad_page + 0xbc/0x13c) [<c00fbd18>] (bad_page + 0x0/0x13c) from [<c00f74b80>] (get_page_from_freelist + 0x4cc/0xb6c) r7:c1963bd8 r6:c0043194 r5:c1963bc0 r4:00000001 [<c00f6fec>] (get_page_from_freelist +0x0/0xb6c) from [<c00f8148>] (__alloc_pages_nodemask + 0x144/0x820) [<c00f8004>] (__alloc_pages_nodemask +0x0/0x820) from [<c0115250>] (handle_pte_fault + 0x574/0x758) [<c0114cdc>] (handle_pte_fault + 0x0/0x758) from [<c0115500>] (handle_mm_fault + 0xcc/0x110) [<c0115434>] (handel_mm_fault + 0x0/0x110) from [<c00521a8>] (do_page_fault + 0x16c/0x1f4) [<c005203c>] (do_page_fault + 0x0/0x1f4) from [<c00440d0>] (do_DataAbort + 0x40/0xac) [<c0044090>] (do_DataAbort + 0x0/0xac) from [<c004a064>] (ret_from_exception + 0x0/0x10) And when the system reboot , the step2 data "123456" will alse lost. You can cat the test.txt,but there is no data in the file. the reason is when the inlinedata convert to extent in the limit case, the inlinedata read to the page,then destory the inlinedata,next step is to __block_write_begin,but it can't get block,return -ENOSPC. so the data lost. there is a patch may fix the bug: in inline.c ext4_convert_inline_data_to_extent needed_blocks = ext4_writepage_trans_blocks(inode); + if(EXT4_C2B(sbi,percpu_counter_read_positive(&sbi->s_freeclusters_counter)) < needed_blocks) + return -ENOSPC; + ret = ext4_get_inode_loc(inode, &iloc); if (ret) return ret; -- 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