linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] fat: mark superblock as dirty less often

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <1334401700.2263.26.camel@koala>
Date:	Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:08:18 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Maling List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux FS Maling List <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] fat: mark superblock as dirty less often

On Sat, 2012-04-14 at 19:37 +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> > But could you please explain why do we need an extra variable? What is
> > the problem with doing all our FAT table changes and then marking the
> > FSINFO as dirty?
> 
> Above example may not be proper. I meant please dirty FSINFO only if
> necessary. Your patch seems to be dirty even if code didn't change
> FSINFO.

Ah, yes, in 'fat_alloc_clusters()' indeed, thanks, I'll fix this.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

Download attachment "signature.asc" of type "application/pgp-signature" (491 bytes)