linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC/PATCH] ext4: Request for journal write access early.

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Message-ID: <20080215203001.GA7664@mit.edu>
Date:	Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:30:01 -0500
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	cmm@...ibm.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] ext4: Request for journal write access early.

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 04:00:52PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> In ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized before we need to request for journal
> write access before we even modify the extent length.

This isn't a grammatically correct sentence, and it doesn't explain
what is going on.  I rewrote the patch description as follows:

   ext4: Get journal write access before modifying the extent tree

   When the user was writing into an unitialized extent,
   ext4_ext_convert_to_initialize() was not requesting journal write access
   before it started to modify the extent tree.   Fix this oversight.

   	     	     	       	   	  	  - Ted
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