linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH -V2] ext4: unmap the underlying metadata when allocating blocks via fallocate

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Message-ID: <20100125175512.GC28459@thunk.org>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:55:12 -0500
From:	tytso@....edu
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	cmm@...ibm.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V2] ext4: unmap the underlying metadata when
 allocating blocks via fallocate

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 09:43:17AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > Aneesh Kumar K.V (3):
> >       ext4: Handle -EDQUOT error on write
> >       ext4: Fix quota accounting error with fallocate
> >       ext4: Drop EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_UPDATE_RESERVE_SPACE flag
> 
> You may wish to add the patch from Jiaying (via me) as well, to handle
> the blocks-past-eof case, if it's had sufficient review.

I'm going to merge it, but I only want to push regressions to Linus at
this stage.  We can add the blocks-past-EOF for the next merge window,
and mark it for merging via -stable, but it's really late for
non-regression bug fixes at this point.

					- Ted
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