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ext4: online defrag is not supported for journaled files

Proper block swap for inodes with full journaling enabled is
truly non obvious task. In order to be on a safe side let's
explicitly disable it for now.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Dmitry Monakhov 12 years ago
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1 changed files with 6 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 6 1
      fs/ext4/move_extent.c

+ 6 - 1
fs/ext4/move_extent.c

@@ -1142,7 +1142,12 @@ ext4_move_extents(struct file *o_filp, struct file *d_filp,
 			orig_inode->i_ino, donor_inode->i_ino);
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
-
+	/* TODO: This is non obvious task to swap blocks for inodes with full
+	   jornaling enabled */
+	if (ext4_should_journal_data(orig_inode) ||
+	    ext4_should_journal_data(donor_inode)) {
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
 	/* Protect orig and donor inodes against a truncate */
 	mext_inode_double_lock(orig_inode, donor_inode);