linux-ext4 - Re: A warning from 3.6+ with bigalloc and delalloc when running xfstest

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Date:	Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:29:48 -0400
From:	Andrey Sidorov <qrxd43@...orola.com>
To:	Andrey Sidorov <qrxd43@...orola.com>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A warning from 3.6+ with bigalloc and delalloc when running xfstest

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@...il.com> wrote:
> Hi Andrey,
>
> This warning is only triggered in a stress test case.  In our product
> system we never meet this warning, certainly we have backported bigalloc
> to 2.6.32 kernel, though.  So IMHO we needn't turn off delalloc.
>
> Regards,
> Zheng

Hi Zheng,

I didn't see it as well, but wanted to be sure it won't break file
system once occurred.
Our use-case is mostly dio and pre-fallocated writes, so I think we'll be fine.
Thanks!

Regards,
Andrey.
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