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    xfs: remote attributes need to be considered data · bcb8607c
    Dave Chinner authored
    commit df150ed1 upstream.
    
    We don't log remote attribute contents, and instead write them
    synchronously before we commit the block allocation and attribute
    tree update transaction. As a result we are writing to the allocated
    space before the allcoation has been made permanent.
    
    As a result, we cannot consider this allocation to be a metadata
    allocation. Metadata allocation can take blocks from the free list
    and so reuse them before the transaction that freed the block is
    committed to disk. This behaviour is perfectly fine for journalled
    metadata changes as log recovery will ensure the free operation is
    replayed before the overwrite, but for remote attribute writes this
    is not the case.
    
    Hence we have to consider the remote attribute blocks to contain
    data and allocate accordingly. We do this by dropping the
    XFS_BMAPI_METADATA flag from the block allocation. This means the
    allocation will not use blocks that are on the busy list without
    first ensuring that the freeing transaction has been committed to
    disk and the blocks removed from the busy list. This ensures we will
    never overwrite a freed block without first ensuring that it is
    really free.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarBrian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
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