linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/2] OCFS2: Allow huge (> 16 TiB) volumes to mount

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Message-ID: <AANLkTinsQjWD1t1lO_BHnM-afzYyl7TKKdIcNZEVMg6n@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:00:10 -0700
From:	"Patrick J. LoPresti" <lopresti@...il.com>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Cc:	ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] OCFS2: Allow huge (> 16 TiB) volumes to mount

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca> wrote:
> On 2010-07-12, at 19:08, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
>>
>> Are you suggesting I need to do this before my patch is accepted at
>> all?  Or is this a refactoring that can happen later?
>
> I'm just suggesting it should be done at some point.  I thought it would be better to do it first, rather than add yet another copy of this code.  That said, I hate to block useful fixes because of cleanup (and I have no control over OCFS2 anyway :-).  However, I've found that once the fix is in people usually forget (or become too busy) to do the cleanup and it just lingers on unseen.

I hear you.

I do not object to factoring out the basic addressability test and
using it in my patch, leaving it for others -- like yourself :-) -- to
modify other file systems to invoke it.

Does that sound like a reasonable compromise?  If so, where should the
function live and what should it be called, do you think?

 - Pat
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