directly in order to guarantee potential data updates later to the space.
Instead, the main goal is to reduce data writes to flash disk as much as
possible, resulting in extending disk life time as well as relaxing IO
- congestion. Alternatively, we've added ioctl interface to reclaim compressed
- space and show it to user after putting the immutable bit.
+ congestion. Alternatively, we've added ioctl(F2FS_IOC_RELEASE_COMPRESS_BLOCKS)
+ interface to reclaim compressed space and show it to user after putting the
+ immutable bit. Immutable bit, after release, it doesn't allow writing/mmaping
+ on the file, until reserving compressed space via
+ ioctl(F2FS_IOC_RESERVE_COMPRESS_BLOCKS) or truncating filesize to zero.
Compress metadata layout::
return err;
#ifdef CONFIG_F2FS_FS_COMPRESSION
+ /*
+ * For compressed file, after release compress blocks, don't allow write
+ * direct, but we should allow write direct after truncate to zero.
+ */
+ if (f2fs_compressed_file(inode) && !free_from
+ && is_inode_flag_set(inode, FI_COMPRESS_RELEASED))
+ clear_inode_flag(inode, FI_COMPRESS_RELEASED);
+
if (from != free_from) {
err = f2fs_truncate_partial_cluster(inode, from, lock);
if (err)