Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: Latest ext3 patches (extents, mballoc, delayed allocation)

From: Sonny Rao
Date: Tue Feb 15 2005 - 03:00:36 EST


On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:40:21PM +0300, Alex Tomas wrote:
>
> Good day all,
>
> I've updated the patchset against 2.6.10. A bunch of bugs have been
> fixed and mballoc now behaves smarter a bit. Extents and mballoc
> patches collects some stats they print upon umount. NOTE: they must
> not be used to store important data. A lot of things are to be done.
>
> Please review. Any comments and suggestions are very welcome.

Alex, small buglet, If the FIBMAP-ioctl get's called on a file with
delayed allocation, you need to flush it (or at least allocate) before
returning the mappings. This doesn't seem to work properly at
present.

Sonny

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