Re: ext4 ioctl(FIEMAP) bug? observed in 2.6.29.4 (32-bit x86)

[Mark Lord]

Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 05:35:24PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
..
> > 2.6.29.4:
> > The output below shows the sequence of FIEMAP calls
> > on the single massive file.  Notice that the first call
> > returned the "LAST" flag set, despite there being many
> > many more extents after that bunch.
>
> Can you try with
>
> commit c9877b205f6ce7943bb95281342f4001cc1c00ec
> Author: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Fri May 1 23:32:06 2009 -0400
>
>     ext4: fix for fiemap last-block test
..

Ahh.. good to see it already upstream, thanks.

I cannot easily reproduce the bug, so no re-test here.
And my app (hdparm) simply now ignores the LAST flag as a workaround.

Thanks
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