It is reasonable to prepent newly created index to older one. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c index 8170b32..37267ea 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -1268,11 +1268,20 @@ static int ext4_ext_grow_indepth(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, { struct ext4_extent_header *neh; struct buffer_head *bh; - ext4_fsblk_t newblock; + ext4_fsblk_t newblock, goal = 0; + struct ext4_super_block *es = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_es; int err = 0; - newblock = ext4_ext_new_meta_block(handle, inode, NULL, - newext, &err, flags); + /* Try to prepend new index to old one */ + if (ext_depth(inode)) + goal = ext4_idx_pblock(EXT_FIRST_INDEX(ext_inode_hdr(inode))); + if (goal > le32_to_cpu(es->s_first_data_block)) { + flags |= EXT4_MB_HINT_TRY_GOAL; + goal--; + } else + goal = ext4_inode_to_goal_block(inode); + newblock = ext4_new_meta_blocks(handle, inode, goal, flags, + NULL, &err); if (newblock == 0) return err; -- 1.7.1 -- 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