Re: __block_prepare_write(): bug?

[Alexander Viro]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Erez Zadok wrote:

> -             if (block_start >= to)
> -                     break;
>               bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_io_sync;
>               if (!buffer_mapped(bh)) {
>                       err = get_block(inode, block, bh, 1);

And there you go: bloody thing bumps the size of every file to 4k
boundary. Which is _not_ going to make fsck[1] happy, since ->i_size is
not consistent with the block pointers in inode. get_block() has side
effects, damnit.

[1] (8), that is.