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Date:	Sat, 04 Jun 2011 16:34:09 +0800
From:	Tao Ma <tm@....ma>
To:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
CC:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: big allocation status

On 06/04/2011 11:38 AM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 09:57:23AM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
>> Hi Ted,
>>
>> Do you have any new branch or patch set that can be used for testing
>> about big allocation? The latest patch set in the mailist is what you
>> have sent at the beginning of May. Do you have an updated one? We will
>> try to test it soon and it would grateful if we are on the same page.
> 
> There is a patch set available at:
> 
> git://repo.or.cz/ext4-patch-queue.git
> 
> The bigalloc patches are after the stable-boundary, and will apply
> against 3.0-rc1.
Great thanks, we will schedule some test maybe next week.
> 
> Note that I've fixed them up so that they apply on top of the punch
> changes; however, the punch ioctl will not work correctly if bigalloc
> is enabled, since that hasn't been fixed up yet.
Fine, our test cases will not use punch ioctl AFAIK.
> 
> Also, I'm still working on the e2fsprogs support.
Cool, but do you have a mkfs.ext4 that we can let the kernel part work
happily? Or we have to add the feature by hand by editing the disk
format. ;)

Regards,
Tao
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