linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC] basic delayed allocation in VFS

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Message-ID: <20070728195714.GD5952@infradead.org>
Date:	Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:57:14 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Alex Tomas <alex@...sterfs.com>
Cc:	David Chinner <dgc@....com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] basic delayed allocation in VFS

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 04:38:44PM +0400, Alex Tomas wrote:
> I just realized that you're talking about data=ordered mode in ext4,
> where care is taken to prevent on-disk references to no-yet-written
> blocks.

Any reference to non-written blocks is a bug.

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