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

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On 	wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:34:45 -0500, Josef Bacik wrote:
> 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,

Agree.
I have made a patch based on this idea, which is under test.

Thanks
Miao

> 
> Josef
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