Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] Adding multiple block allocation

[Andrew Morton]

Mingming Cao <cmm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If we do direct write(block allocation) to a hole, I found that the
>  "create" flag passed to ext3_direct_io_get_blocks() is 0 if we are
>  trying to _write_ to a file hole. Is this expected? 

Nope.  The code in get_more_blocks() is pretty explicit.

> But if it try to allocating blocks in the hole (with direct IO), blocks
> are allocated one by one. I am looking at it right now.
> 

Please see the comment over get_more_blocks().
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