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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1202241710190.13074@dhcp-27-109.brq.redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:13:20 +0100 (CET)
From:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
To:	Phillip Susi <psusi@...ntu.com>
cc:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	tytso@....edu, sandeen@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [RESEND] [PATCH 2/2 v2] e2fsck: Do not forget to discard last
 block group

On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Phillip Susi wrote:

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> On 2/24/2012 9:57 AM, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> >> I do not see how the group would become UNINIT again, so there is
> >> not reason to discard it. Previously we could count free block
> >> through out several groups (accounting or BLOCK_UNINIT groups as
> >> well. We do not do that now, because we discard every group
> >> separately.
> 
> Simple; delete some files.  Once all blocks in the block group are
> free again, it can go back to UNINIT.  Also the fs may have been
> formatted without discard, or moved with dd, or any number of ways
> that the bock allocation bitmap could still use a discard despite
> being uninitialized.

It does not work that way, uinit is never set back. If it has been
formated without discard it is user choice, moving the image to the
thinly provisioned device, or ssd with dd is really bad idea anyway.
That said, UNINIT means that it has not been used and hence there
should be nothing to reclaim.

-Lukas

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