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author | Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> | 2011-03-04 15:46:53 -0500 |
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committer | Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> | 2011-03-17 14:21:33 -0400 |
commit | 695a0d0da09e75c4475bbb303def159023ef72ca (patch) | |
tree | 96f9d223a3395bd015d2922b5e797634be27b161 /fs/btrfs | |
parent | 930f028abe39dfd0849b53131d19c4b67aacbe67 (diff) |
Btrfs: add a comment explaining what btrfs_cont_expand does
Everytime I have to deal with btrfs_cont_expand I stare at it for 20 minutes
trying to remember what exactly it does and why the hell we need it. So add a
comment to save future-Josef some time. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/btrfs')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/btrfs/inode.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c index 64d57e032b4..888dbdb3b12 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c @@ -3557,6 +3557,12 @@ out: return ret; } +/* + * This function puts in dummy file extents for the area we're creating a hole + * for. So if we are truncating this file to a larger size we need to insert + * these file extents so that btrfs_get_extent will return a EXTENT_MAP_HOLE for + * the range between oldsize and size + */ int btrfs_cont_expand(struct inode *inode, loff_t oldsize, loff_t size) { struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans; |