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Message-ID: <20130313172521.GC5604@thunk.org> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:25:21 -0400 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> To: Lukáš Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com> Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Metadata reservation for unwritten extent conversion On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 05:09:51PM +0100, Lukáš Czerner wrote: > > Well, we can not actually revert that patch because it introduces > da_reserve_metadata() which is used elsewhere in the commit: > > ext4: reserve metadata block for every delayed write > > I can resend the patch which uses da_reserve_metadata() so you can use > it instead the old version That sounds like the best thing to do. I assume you will be simply taking the da_reserve_metadata() function introduced in the to-be-dropped commit: > ext4: Reserve metadata if writing into uninitialized ... and moving it into the "reserve metadata block for every delayed write" patch? - 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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