linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/2] ext4: Get rid of EXT4_MAP

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Date:	Sat, 12 Apr 2014 10:26:36 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ext4: Get rid of EXT4_MAP_UNINIT flag

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 07:14:22PM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> Currently EXT4_MAP_UNINIT is used in dioread_nolock case to mark the
> cases where we're using dioread_nolock and we're writing into either
> unallocated, or unwritten extent, because we need to make sure that
> any DIO write into that inode will wait for the extent conversion.
> 
> However EXT4_MAP_UNINIT is not only entirely misleading name but also
> unnecessary because we can check for EXT4_MAP_UNWRITTEN in the
> dioread_nolock case instead.
> 
> This commit removes EXT4_MAP_UNINIT flag.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>

Thanks, this patch has been queued for 3.16

				   - Ted
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