Creation of holes in JFFS2

[Ravindra Teli <RTeli@xxxxxxx.com>]

Hi,

While going thru JFFS2 source code, it seems like  the function 

int jffs2_prepare_write (struct file *filp, struct page *pg, unsigned start,
unsigned end) of file file.c

creates a jffs2_full_dnode to represent a hole in file. A hole is being
create in function 
int jffs2_add_full_dnode_to_fraglist(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, struct
jffs2_node_frag **list, struct jffs2_full_dnode *fn) function of readinode.c
when a file write is being done at an offset which is greater than file end.

The latter function is being called from jffs2_add_full_dnode_to_inode()
which is called from jffs2_prepare_write().

This duplication is confusing. 
I am assuming that before writing (i.e. calling jffs2_commit_write()
jffs2_prepare_write is being called by vfs layer)

If anyone can throw some light on this, it would be great.
Thanks

Ravi








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