linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Don't reuse released data blocks untill transaction commits

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Message-ID: <20081012203327.GG12662@mit.edu>
Date:	Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:33:27 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	cmm@...ibm.com, sandeen@...hat.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Don't reuse released data blocks untill
	transaction commits

On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 09:02:08PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> We need to make sure we don't reuse the data blocks released
> during the transaction untill the transaction commits. We force
> this mode only for ordered and journalled mode. Writeback mode
> already don't provided data consistency.

It might be a good idea in ext4_free_mb_metadata() to add a comment
that the name of the function is a little bit of a misnomer...

BTW, you may want to check what I put in the patch queue, because
iirc, I fixed up a few spelling/grammar in the patch comments.

      	      	       			       - Ted
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