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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] quota: add the option to not fail with EDQUOT in
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Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 18:32:29 -0400
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On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 04:52:28PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> To simplify metadata tracking for delalloc writes, ext4
> will simply claim metadata blocks at allocation time, without
> first speculatively reserving the worst case and then freeing
> what was not used.
> 
> To do this, we need a mechanism to track allocations in
> the quota subsystem, but potentially allow that allocation
> to actually go over quota.
> 
> This patch adds a DQUOT_SPACE_NOFAIL flag and function
> variants for this purpose.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>

Applied to the ext4 patch queue.

					- Ted