On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 03:23:46PM -0500, Alex Elder wrote: > On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 02:04 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > plain text document attachment (xfs-simplify-xfs_bmap_isaeof) > > Add a common helper for finding the last extent in a file. > > > > Largely based on a patch from Dave Chinner. > > > The new version of xfs_bmap_isaeof() no longer asserts > that the data fork is the one being operated on. Why? Because it would work perfectly fine for the attr fork, too - even if it's fairly useless for it. > fork is empty, so mention that case in the comment header: > > Returns 0 in *aeof if the file (fork) is empty. > > (Maybe you could explain why this is true at a more > abstract level though.) I've done both. > This logic could be shortened: > > *aeof = off >= rec.br_startoff + rec.br_blockcount || > (off >= rec.br_startoff && > isnullstartblock(rec.br_startblock); Done (including a comment update) > > + return 0; > > +} > > + > > +/* > > + * Check if the endoff is outside the last extent. If so the caller will grow > > + * the allocation to a stripe unit boundary. > > All offsets are considered outside the end of file for an > empty file (fork), so 1 is returned in *eof in that case. Ok. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs