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People have been reporting ENOSPC crashes in finish_ordered_io.  This is because
we try to steal from the delalloc block rsv to satisfy a reservation to update
the inode.  The problem with this is we don't explicitly save space for updating
the inode when doing delalloc.  This is kind of a problem and we've gotten away
with this because way back when we just stole from the delalloc reserve without
any questions, and this worked out fine because generally speaking the leaf had
been modified either by the mtime update when we did the original write or
because we just updated the leaf when we inserted the file extent item, only on
rare occasions had the leaf not actually been modified, and that was still ok
because we'd just use a block or two out of the over-reservation that is
delalloc.

Then came the delayed inode stuff.  This is amazing, except it wants a full
reservation for updating the inode since it may do it at some point down the
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