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Message-ID: <20100706185703.GD17961@mail.oracle.com>
Date:	Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:57:03 -0700
From:	Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@...cle.com>
To:	Tao Ma <tao.ma@...cle.com>
Cc:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com, Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ocfs2: Zero the tail cluster when extending past
 i_size v2

On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 11:51:44AM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> On 07/04/2010 05:32 AM, Joel Becker wrote:
> From here to the call of CoW is a bit hard to understand. In 'if',
> num_clusters is set for CoW and in 'else', blocks_to_zero is set. So
> it isn't easy for the reader to tell why these 2 clauses are setting
> different values. So how about my code below? It looks more
> straightforward I think.

	I took your cleanup mostly.

Joel

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