Re: [Ext2-devel] [PATCH 2/2] ext2/3: Support2^32-1blocks(e2fsprogs)

[Ravikiran G Thirumalai]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 12:38:37PM -0800, Mingming Cao wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 12:00 -0800, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 10:35:10AM -0800, Mingming Cao wrote:
> > 
> Wild suggestion, how about we don't update the global counter is the
> result is negative?

You mean just keep the local version even below -FBC_BATCH 
and only empty it to the global unsigned counter if the result is going to 
be +ve?  That would work I think.

Thanks,
Kiran
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