linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/2] ext4: Don't count free clusters from a corrupt block group

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Message-ID: <20131030152157.GB13343@thunk.org>
Date:	Wed, 30 Oct 2013 11:21:57 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, gnehzuil.liu@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ext4: Don't count free clusters from a corrupt block
 group

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 05:13:57PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> A bg that's been flagged "corrupt" by definition has no free blocks, so that
> the allocator won't be tempted to use the damaged bg.  Therefore, we shouldn't
> count the clusters in the damaged group when calculating free counts.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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