Hi,

I am confused about what this below piece of code in function "static
int ext2_block_to_path()" is doing.

 161  }
 162  if (boundary)
 163   *boundary = final - 1 - (i_block & (ptrs - 1));
 164


As per comment it says this:

 103  *      @boundary: set this non-zero if the referred-to block is
likely to be
 104  *             followed (on disk) by an indirect block.

However it appears to be doing the reverse thing.  Consider the
simplest case when I try to lookup 5th block of my file. For it the
values will be

ptrs = 4096/4 = 1024
i_block = 5
final = 12

which results in 6. Note that the block 11 will be followed by an
indirect block and in that case this will return 0.

Of course I am missing something but what ???

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