Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] [PATCH 2/4]delayed allocation for ext3

[Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>]

On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 19:47 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Jul 17, 2005  10:40 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> > @@ -373,6 +373,7 @@ struct ext3_inode {
> >  #define EXT3_MOUNT_BARRIER		0x20000 /* Use block barriers */
> >  #define EXT3_MOUNT_NOBH			0x40000 /* No bufferheads */
> >  #define EXT3_MOUNT_QUOTA		0x80000 /* Some quota option set */
> > + #define EXT3_MOUNT_DELAYED_ALLOC	0xC0000 /* Delayed Allocation */
> 
> This doesn't make sense.  DELAYED_ALLOC == QUOTA | NOBH?

My fault. I will fix it.

> 
> > +     {Opt_delayed_alloc, "delalloc"},
> 
> Is this a replacement for Alex's delalloc code?  We also use delalloc for
> that code and if they are not interchangeable it will cause confusion
> about which one is in use.
> 

Well, basically "delalloc" concept is same - whether we use it on
current ext3 layout or with new extent layout doesn't matter.


> > +     if (test_opt(sb, DELAYED_ALLOC)) {
> > +             if (!(test_opt(sb, DATA_FLAGS) == EXT3_MOUNT_WRITEBACK_DATA)) {
> > +                     printk(KERN_WARNING "EXT3-fs: Ignoring delall option - "
> > +                             "its supported only with writeback mode\n");
> 
> Should be "ignoring delalloc option".

Yep.

Thanks,
Badari