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Message-ID: <20070719053156.GF32734@ca-server1.us.oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:31:56 -0700
From: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@...cle.com>
To: David Chinner <dgc@....com>
Cc: "Amit K. Arora" <aarora@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, xfs@....sgi.com, tytso@....edu,
cmm@...ibm.com, suparna@...ibm.com, adilger@...sterfs.com,
michael.kerrisk@....net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5][TAKE8] manpage for fallocate
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 03:10:52PM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> % git-log 84e1e99f112dead8f9ba036c02d24a9f5ce7f544 |head -10
> commit 84e1e99f112dead8f9ba036c02d24a9f5ce7f544
> Author: David Chinner <dgc@....com>
> Date: Mon Jun 18 16:50:27 2007 +1000
>
> [XFS] Prevent ENOSPC from aborting transactions that need to succeed
>
> During delayed allocation extent conversion or unwritten extent
> conversion, we need to reserve some blocks for transactions reservations.
> We need to reserve these blocks in case a btree split occurs and we need
> to allocate some blocks.
>
> ------
>
> IOWs, XFS didn't provide this guarantee until about a month ago....
Ok, once again XFS is ahead of the curve ;)
Comment rescinded then...
--Mark
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Mark Fasheh
Senior Software Developer, Oracle
mark.fasheh@...cle.com
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