ext4: disable merging of uninitialized extents
Derived from Jan's patch:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/36470 Merging of uninitialized extents creates all sorts of interesting race possibilities when writeback / DIO races with fallocate. Thus ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio() has to deal with a case where extent to be converted needs to be split out first. That isn't nice for two reasons: 1) It may need allocation of extent tree block so ENOSPC is possible. 2) It complicates end_io handling code So we disable merging of uninitialized extents which allows us to simplify the code. Extents will get merged after they are converted to initialized ones. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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