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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 08:11:37 +0100 (CET) From: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com> To: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu> cc: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>, Allison Henderson <achender@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ext4: Remove empty index blocks when punching holes On Mon, 5 Mar 2012, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:18:54AM +0100, Lukas Czerner wrote: > > > > > > Alrighty then, sounds good. This patch seemed to correct the loop discard bug > > > we saw earlier for me. So please make sure you have some similar fix in your > > > new patch. Basically we had some extra index blocks hanging around when the > > > depth was greater than one, so the patch just adds some code to free up those > > > index blocks in the path if they are empty. Hope this helps! Thx! :) > > > > Actually I started to modifying the punch hole code in order to find > > that bug and this problem does go away with my pathes. I'll CC > > you on the patches when I send them out. > > OK, so my understanding is that Lukas's patches solve the same problem > as Allison's, and those are the patches I should review and integrate? > > - Ted > Hi Ted, you're right my patches solves this problem (as I wrote in the commit description) just because we now use a different code paths, which do not have this problem. Thanks! -Lukas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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