From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 11:27:45 -0700 Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 0/2] ocfs2: make xattr work with new local alloc reservation. In-Reply-To: <4C1AE141.60707@oracle.com> References: <4C1AE141.60707@oracle.com> Message-ID: <20100708182745.GB17445@mail.oracle.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:00:17AM +0800, Tao Ma wrote: > The old xattr codes deem that we can allocate enough contiguous > clusters from the allocator, it works with the old local alloc > allocator. But as Mark has added reservation code to ocfs2, now it > isn't the good hypothesis any more. So these 2 patches try to let > xattr work with it. Am I right that the xattr code is broken without these? Joel -- "The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak." - author Robert A. Heinlein on censorship Joel Becker Consulting Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker at oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127