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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:51:44 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> To: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> Cc: Ted Tso <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] ext4: Rewrite ext4_page_mkwrite() to use generic helpers On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:09:18PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > more readable, even if there is a tiny amount of code duplication. > The trouble is that ext4 falls backs to standard allocation instead of > delayed allocation when we run low on free space. So complete separation > of these two cases is not possible. Also inode data journal flag can be > set on the fly so we have to check it even in delalloc mkwrite > implementation. Yikes! Ok, in that case there's no benefit in doing the split. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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