linux-ext4 - Re: booked-page-flag.patch

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Date:	Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:30:39 +0300
From:	Alex Tomas <alex@...sterfs.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Alex Tomas <alex@...sterfs.com>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: booked-page-flag.patch

>>>>> Andrew Morton (AM) writes:

 -> get_block(with BH_Delay) can be used to signal
 >> filesystem that no actual allocation is required.
 >> so, aware filesystem can just reserve space. then
 -> writepages() should walk through the pages like
 >> it does currently, collect contiugous sequences
 >> and again call ->get_block(w/o BH_Delay) with b_size
 >> covering all contiguous pages ...
 >> 

 AM> That sounds like it'd work, yes.

 AM> Except for an address_space which is using delayed allocation, its
 -> prepare_write wouldn't call get_block at all, so perhaps that isn't
 AM> needed.

hmm. I thought it has to call get_block() at least to know whether
the block is already allocated. and I was going to reserve space
in prepare_write for which some fs-specific method is needed becase
only fs knows how much metadata it'd need.

thanks, Alex
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