Re: [PATCH 2/2] preserve the next empty-entry hint after allocation

[Namjae Jeon]

> +       ret = exfat_cache_next_empty_entry(sb, ei, &prev_hint_femp, dentry,
> +                       num_entries);
The empty-entry hint is only an optimization, so failure to advance
the hint should not make file creation fail with -EIO.
Could you make exfat_cache_next_empty_entry() return void and simply
skip caching the hint if exfat_chain_advance() fails?

> +       if (ret) {
> +               exfat_put_dentry_set(es, false);
> +               return ret;
> +       }
> +
>         p_dir->dir = exfat_sector_to_cluster(sbi, es->bh[0]->b_blocknr);
>         p_dir->size -= dentry / sbi->dentries_per_clu;
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>