linux-ext4 - Re: [PULL REQUEST] Quota cleanups & fixes and ext3 fixes for 2.6.34-rc1

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Message-ID: <20100306095509.GA23951@infradead.org>
Date:	Sat, 6 Mar 2010 04:55:09 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, dushistov@...l.ru,
	joel.becker@...cle.com, shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PULL REQUEST] Quota cleanups & fixes and ext3 fixes for
	2.6.34-rc1

On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 11:01:17PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> I'd say that places where it's added are lousy - if we want to do that
> on directory modifications, we ought to take it into places that actually
> create directory entries.  Not to mention that we never shrink directories
> there, so it should be just one call in ext2_add_link() instead of all
> that pile.
> 
> Looks like a good case for a followup series, if nothing else.

Yes, this will get sorted out per filesystem later, but I didn't want
to mess around with all filesystems in one series.

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