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Message-ID: <4FC83C81.5090001@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 22:52:33 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> To: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu> CC: Tao Ma <tm@....ma>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: let getattr report the right blocks in delalloc+bigalloc. On 5/31/12 7:43 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:08:50PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> On 1/31/12 9:58 AM, Tao Ma wrote: >>> From: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com> >>> >>> In delayed allocation, i_reserved_data_blocks now indicates >>> clusters, not blocks. So report it in the right number. >>> >>> This can be easily exposed by the following command: >>> echo foo > blah; du -hc blah; sync; du -hc blah >>> >>> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu> >>> Reported-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> >>> Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com> >> >> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen2redhat.com> >> >> It'd be great to get this one merged. > > I'll merge this, but delalloc and bigalloc is still pretty badly > busted. But this will make stat return something that is closer to > being correct... Hm what else is busted? Is there a testcase written? How much else do you know of that's busted with bigalloc? :) (Is this bustedness the reason for not yet having it in the man page?) -Eric > - Ted -- 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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