Introduce SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE to XFS V5
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Thu Jan 12 10:39:43 CST 2012
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 03:07:29PM -0600, Mark Tinguely wrote:
>
> xfs_bmapi_read() returns the br_state == XFS_EXT_NORM for a hole.
> There are a couple places that a hole can trigger a data test.
> BTW, I could not generate a large enough hole that xfs_bmapi_read()
> would return as more than one hole entry, so I will ignore those
> situations and just list the couple places that a hole may be match
> a data rule:
We've been through this before, you need to overflow the 32-bit extent
length counter to get there. Jeff, did you manage to create a test
case for that particular scenario?
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