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Try to repair errors that we see in file CoW forks so that we don't do stupid things like remap garbage into a file. There's not a lot we can do with the COW fork -- the ondisk metadata record only that the COW staging extents are owned by the refcount btree, which effectively means that we can't reconstruct this incore structure from scratch. Actually, this is even worse -- we can't touch written extents, because those map space that are actively under writeback, and there's not much to do with delalloc reservations. Hence we can only detect crosslinked unwritten extents and fix them by punching out the problematic parts and replacing them with delalloc extents. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Linux kernel
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