On Aug 03, 2007 10:22 +0800, Yan Zheng wrote: > Druing reading the source codes of indirect index, there is a doubt > in my mind. When using indirect index, physical block number must not > exceed 0xffffffff, but I cann' t find any clue about how > ext4_alloc_blocks insure that. Codes that check 64bit_feature is only > in ext4_fill_super and they do nothing affects block allocation > algorithm. Maybe ext4_alloc_blocks should check whether inode has > EXT4_EXTENTS_FL flags and only search block groups that have blocks > below 0xffffffff when not. > > The source codes I read is 2.6.22.
Good question. It is intended that extents be used for filesystems larger than 2^32 blocks, but there is no guarantee that existing block-mapped files will not still exist. I think the check you propose makes sense. The code should return EFBIG or maybe EOVERFLOW in this case (not ENOSPC I think). Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
