linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 0/4] ext4: clean up ext4_ext_handle_unwritten

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Date:   Thu, 21 May 2020 10:59:48 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Eric Whitney <enwlinux@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] ext4: clean up ext4_ext_handle_unwritten_extents()

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 02:53:16PM -0400, Eric Whitney wrote:
> Changes made to ext4 over time have resulted in some cruft accumulating
> in ext4_ext_handle_unwritten_extents().  This patch series removes
> some dead and some redundant code, simplifies and corrects some error
> handling, and adds explicit error logging when an unexpected internal
> error or file system corruption may have occurred.
> 
> Eric Whitney (4):
>   ext4: remove dead GET_BLOCKS_ZERO code
>   ext4: remove redundant GET_BLOCKS_CONVERT code
>   ext4: clean up GET_BLOCKS_PRE_IO error handling
>   ext4: clean up ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized() error handling
> 
>  fs/ext4/extents.c | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>  1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

Thanks, I've applied this patch series.

						- Ted