btrfs: heed alloc_start currently alloc_start is disregarded if the requested chunk size is bigger than (device size - alloc_start), but smaller than the device size. The only situation where I see this could have made sense was when a chunk equal the size of the device has been requested. This was possible as the allocator failed to take alloc_start into account when calculating the request chunk size. As this gets fixed by this patch, the workaround is not necessary anymore.
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c index a9f1fc2..45c592a 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -849,10 +849,7 @@ /* we don't want to overwrite the superblock on the drive, * so we make sure to start at an offset of at least 1MB */ - search_start = 1024 * 1024; - - if (root->fs_info->alloc_start + num_bytes <= search_end) - search_start = max(root->fs_info->alloc_start, search_start); + search_start = max(root->fs_info->alloc_start, 1024ull * 1024); max_hole_start = search_start; max_hole_size = 0;