Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] Btrfs: implement full reflink support for inline extents

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On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 03:03:14PM +0000, Filipe Manana wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 2:20 PM David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 11:57:52AM +0000, Filipe Manana wrote:
> > > So this actually isn't safe.
> > >
> > > It can bring back the race that leads to file extent items with
> > > overlapping ranges. Not because of the hole detection part but because
> > > of the part where we copy extent items from the fs/subvolume tree into
> > > the log tree using btrfs_search_forward(), as we copy all extent
> > > items, including the ones outside the fsync range - so we could race
> > > in the same way as we did during hole detection with ordered extent
> > > completion for ordered extents outside the range.
> > >
> > > I'll have to rework this a bit.
> >
> > Ok, I'll remove the branch from for-next. Thanks.
> 
> Wrong thread, the comment was meant for:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11419793/

Saw it just now and taht was a bit wtf if my mail did not make it
through. So, reflink stays in for-next.



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