Re: [patch to 2.6.10-rc2] ext3_find_goal

[Jeff Garzik]

stone_wang@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> We found strange blocks layout in our mail server, after careful study,
> we got the reason and tried to fix it.
>
> When loading an inode from buffer/disk(ext2/3_read_inode),then allocating the second block(block==1) of the corresponding file: i_next_alloc_block and i_next_alloc_goal are both zero,and in fact are not valid,
> but they(i_next_alloc_block/goal) take effect in the former codes. This causes non-contiguous file.
>
> Below patch add a check,and fixes this.

Good catch!


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