linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix discard of inode prealloc space with delayed allocation.

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Message-ID: <20090226055919.GA7227@mit.edu>
Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:59:19 -0500
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix discard of inode prealloc space with delayed
	allocation.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:52:02PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> With delayed allocation we should not/cannot discard inode prealloc
> space during file close. We would still have dirty pages for which
> we haven't allocated blocks yet. With this fix after each get_blocks
> request we check whether we have zero reserved blocks and if yes and
> we don't have any writers on the file we discard inode prealloc
> space.

Thanks, applied in the ext4 patch queue.

						- Ted
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