linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Do not zeroout uninitialized extents beyond i

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Message-ID: <20100608214651.GA6529@thunk.org>
Date:	Tue, 8 Jun 2010 17:46:51 -0400
From:	tytso@....edu
To:	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
Cc:	"Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Do not zeroout uninitialized extents beyond
 i_size

On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 12:32:09PM +0400, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
> >
> > I thought this patch is going to reworked to use EOFBLOCKS_FL. But i see
> > Ted sent a pull request with the this patch. Did I miss something ?

I added it to the patch queue a week before you sent your comment that
we should rework this with EOFBLOCKS_FL, and I forgot to pull the
patch back.

> As far as i can see EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL flag is now allowed for
> uninitialized extents only in e2fslib. So we have to change e2fslib
> first and then revert the kernel zeroout restriction logic.

I think I'm missing something.  What change do you think is needed in
e2fsprogs?

						- Ted



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