linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/3] ext4: Retry allocation when inline->extent conversion failed

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Message-ID: <20131218054525.GA19434@thunk.org>
Date:	Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:45:25 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Akira Fujita <a-fujita@...jp.nec.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ext4: Retry allocation when inline->extent
 conversion failed

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:13:58AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Similarly as other ->write_begin functions in ext4, also
> ext4_da_write_inline_data_begin() should retry allocation if the
> conversion failed because of ENOSPC. This avoids returning ENOSPC
> prematurely because of uncommitted block deletions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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