[PATCH 1/3] erofs-utils: determine the [un]compressed data block is inline or not early

[Noboru Asai]

Hi Gao,

Thank you for your kind explanation. I respect your policy.

Please let me know if you change your mind,
since I will maintainance this patch personally.

2024年4月18日(木) 16:37 Gao Xiang <xiang at kernel.org>:
>
> Hi Noboru,
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 02:52:29PM +0900, Noboru Asai wrote:
> > Introducing erofs_get_inodesize function and erofs_get_lowest_offset function,
> > we can determine the [un]compressed data block is inline or not before
> > executing z_erofs_merge_segment function. It enable the following,
> >
> > * skip the redundant write for ztailpacking block.
> > * simplify erofs_prepare_inode_buffer function. (remove handling ENOSPC error)
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Noboru Asai <asai at sijam.com>
>
> I appreciate and thanks for your effort and time.
>
> Yet I tend to avoid assuming if the inline is ok or not before
> prepare_inode_buffer() since it will be free for space allocator
> to decide inline or not at that time.
>
> So personally I still would like to write a final compressed
> index for inline fallback.
>
> I will fix this issue myself later (it should be just a small
> patch to fix this).
>
> Thanks for your effort on this issue again!
>
> Thanks,
> Gao Xiang
>