Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: don't panic if orphan item already exists

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On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:14:13AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 12/14/2011 9:58 AM, Josef Bacik wrote:
> >There is no "underlying bug", there is a shitty situation, the shitty situation
> 
> Maybe my assumptions are wrong somewhere then.  You add the orphan
> item to make sure that the truncate will be finalized even if the
> system crashes before the transaction commits right?  So if
> truncate() fails with -ENOSPC, then you shouldn't be trying to
> finalize the truncate on the next mount, should you ( because the
> call did not succeed )?
> 

Yes because otherwise we'll leak space since the i_size has been updated
already.  The other option is to make btrfs_truncate_inode_items update i_size
as we truncate so if it fails we can delete the orphan item and then update the
inode with the new i_size, that way we don't leave the orphan item on disk and
we don't leak space.  I'll see how doable this is.  Thanks,

Josef
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