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    GFS2: Ensure that the inode goal block settings are updated · d9ba7615
    Steven Whitehouse authored
    
    
    GFS2 has a goal block associated with each inode indicating the
    search start position for future block allocations (in fact there
    are two, but thats for backward compatibility with GFS1 as they
    are set to identical locations in GFS2).
    
    In some circumstances, depending on the ordering of updates to
    the inode it was possible for the goal block settings to not
    be updated on disk. This patch ensures that the goal block will
    always get updated, thus reducing the potential for searching
    the same (already allocated) blocks again when looking for free
    space during block allocation.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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