linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH V2 3/3] ext4: quota handling for delayed allocation

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Date:	Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:35:08 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>, jack@...e.cz, tytso@....edu,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 3/3] ext4: quota handling for delayed allocation

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:27:31 -0700
> Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>> ext4: quota reservation for delayed allocation
>>
>> Index: linux-2.6.28-rc2/fs/ext4/inode.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- linux-2.6.28-rc2.orig/fs/ext4/inode.c	2008-10-29 13:26:55.000000000 -0700
>> +++ linux-2.6.28-rc2/fs/ext4/inode.c	2008-10-30 14:25:47.000000000 -0700
>> @@ -1531,12 +1541,23 @@ repeat:
>>  	md_needed = mdblocks - EXT4_I(inode)->i_reserved_meta_blocks;
>>  	total = md_needed + nrblocks;
>>  
>> +	/*
>> +	 * Make quota reservation here, to prevent quota overflow
>> +	 * later.Real quota accounting is done at pages writeout
>> +	 * time
> 
> "Make the quota reservation here to prevent quota overflow later.  Real
> quota accounting is performed and page writeout time."

s/and/at/
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-- 
~Randy
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