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[commited] support: Fix detecting hole support on >2KB-block filesystems

Message ID 20200604192748.2510982-1-samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org
State Committed, archived
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Series [commited] support: Fix detecting hole support on >2KB-block filesystems |

Commit Message

Samuel Thibault June 4, 2020, 7:27 p.m. UTC 
  When detecting hole support, we write at 16MiB, and filesystems will
typically need two levels of data to record that. On filesystems with
8KB block, the two indirection blocks will require a total of 16KB
overhead, thus 32 512-byte sectors.

Spotted on GNU/Hurd with a 4KB blocks filesystem, but also happens on Linux
with 4KB or 8KB blocks filesystems.

* support/support_descriptor_supports_holes.c
(support_descriptor_supports_holes): Set block_headroom to 32.
---
 support/support_descriptor_supports_holes.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/support/support_descriptor_supports_holes.c b/support/support_descriptor_supports_holes.c
index fc2aa76f10..d3d5d3a938 100644
--- a/support/support_descriptor_supports_holes.c
+++ b/support/support_descriptor_supports_holes.c
@@ -34,8 +34,10 @@  support_descriptor_supports_holes (int fd)
       write_offset = 16 * 1024 * 1024,
 
       /* Our write may add this number of additional blocks (see
-         block_limit below).  */
-      block_headroom = 8,
+         block_limit below): writing at offset 16M can require two data block
+         indirections, each of which can be as large as 8KB on ext2, thus 32
+         512B sectors.  */
+      block_headroom = 32,
     };
 
   struct stat64 st;