linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/1] ext4: Remove empty index blocks when punching holes

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Date:	Mon, 5 Mar 2012 18:54:30 -0500
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
Cc:	Allison Henderson <achender@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ext4: Remove empty index blocks when punching holes

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:18:54AM +0100, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> > 
> > Alrighty then, sounds good.  This patch seemed to correct the loop discard bug
> > we saw earlier for me.  So please make sure you have some similar fix in your
> > new patch.  Basically we had some extra index blocks hanging around when the
> > depth was greater than one, so the patch just adds some code to free up those
> > index blocks in the path if they are empty.  Hope this helps!  Thx!  :)
> 
> Actually I started to modifying the punch hole code in order to find
> that bug and this problem does go away with my pathes. I'll CC
> you on the patches when I send them out.

OK, so my understanding is that Lukas's patches solve the same problem
as Allison's, and those are the patches I should review and integrate?

   	      	  	    		- Ted
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