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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:31:56 -0700 From: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@...cle.com> To: David Chinner <dgc@....com> Cc: "Amit K. Arora" <aarora@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, xfs@....sgi.com, tytso@....edu, cmm@...ibm.com, suparna@...ibm.com, adilger@...sterfs.com, michael.kerrisk@....net Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5][TAKE8] manpage for fallocate On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 03:10:52PM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > % git-log 84e1e99f112dead8f9ba036c02d24a9f5ce7f544 |head -10 > commit 84e1e99f112dead8f9ba036c02d24a9f5ce7f544 > Author: David Chinner <dgc@....com> > Date: Mon Jun 18 16:50:27 2007 +1000 > > [XFS] Prevent ENOSPC from aborting transactions that need to succeed > > During delayed allocation extent conversion or unwritten extent > conversion, we need to reserve some blocks for transactions reservations. > We need to reserve these blocks in case a btree split occurs and we need > to allocate some blocks. > > ------ > > IOWs, XFS didn't provide this guarantee until about a month ago.... Ok, once again XFS is ahead of the curve ;) Comment rescinded then... --Mark -- Mark Fasheh Senior Software Developer, Oracle mark.fasheh@...cle.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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