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Message-ID: <20130311025219.GK10090@thunk.org>
Date:	Sun, 10 Mar 2013 22:52:19 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, gnehzuil.liu@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ext4: reserve metadata block for every delayed write

On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 09:24:19AM +0100, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> Currently we only reserve space (data+metadata) in delayed allocation if
> we're allocating from new cluster (which is always in non-bigalloc file
> system) which is ok for data blocks, because we reserve whole cluster.
> 
> However we have to reserve metadata for every delayed block we're going
> to write because every block could potentially require metedata block
> when we need to grow the extent tree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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