linux-ext4 - Re: ext4-patch-queue rebased to 2.6.22

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Date:	Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:09:39 -0600
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com>
To:	"Amit K. Arora" <aarora@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4-patch-queue rebased to 2.6.22

On Jul 10, 2007  20:24 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:37:56PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > So we're just waiting for Amit to make the minor on-disk format change
> > Andreas suggested before we push to Linus.
> 
> 2. Added a new patch ext4-fallocate-8-new-ondisk-format and updated
>    the series file. This patch, as suggested by Andreas, will allow
>    an initialized extent to be of max 2^15 length. Main purpose of this
>    change is to have a better extent-to-group alignment.
>    For uninitialized extents the max length remains same - i.e. 2^15 - 1.

One tiny change I'd ask for in this patch (it isn't critical to get in
before the upstream submission as it is only code style) is instead of
using (EXT_MAX_LEN - 1) for uninitialized extents, instead use a separate
#define EXT_UNINIT_MAX_LEN (EXT_MAX_LEN - 1) and use that in the code.
While a minor change, this localizes the knowledge of the maximum length
of uninitialized extents into just one place - right after the maximum
length of initialized extents.

It might even make sense to change the other #define to be called
EXT_INIT_MAX_LEN so people have to think about this when using the #define.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.

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