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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/udf/inode.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/fs/udf/inode.c b/fs/udf/inode.c index e7533f78563..6d24c2c63f9 100644 --- a/fs/udf/inode.c +++ b/fs/udf/inode.c @@ -90,19 +90,16 @@ no_delete: } /* - * If we are going to release inode from memory, we discard preallocation and - * truncate last inode extent to proper length. We could use drop_inode() but - * it's called under inode_lock and thus we cannot mark inode dirty there. We - * use clear_inode() but we have to make sure to write inode as it's not written - * automatically. + * If we are going to release inode from memory, we truncate last inode extent + * to proper length. We could use drop_inode() but it's called under inode_lock + * and thus we cannot mark inode dirty there. We use clear_inode() but we have + * to make sure to write inode as it's not written automatically. */ void udf_clear_inode(struct inode *inode) { struct udf_inode_info *iinfo; if (!(inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) { lock_kernel(); - /* Discard preallocation for directories, symlinks, etc. */ - udf_discard_prealloc(inode); udf_truncate_tail_extent(inode); unlock_kernel(); write_inode_now(inode, 0); @@ -664,8 +661,12 @@ static struct buffer_head *inode_getblk(struct inode *inode, sector_t block, udf_split_extents(inode, &c, offset, newblocknum, laarr, &endnum); #ifdef UDF_PREALLOCATE - /* preallocate blocks */ - udf_prealloc_extents(inode, c, lastblock, laarr, &endnum); + /* We preallocate blocks only for regular files. It also makes sense + * for directories but there's a problem when to drop the + * preallocation. We might use some delayed work for that but I feel + * it's overengineering for a filesystem like UDF. */ + if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) + udf_prealloc_extents(inode, c, lastblock, laarr, &endnum); #endif /* merge any continuous blocks in laarr */ |