From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Cc: Allison Henderson <achender@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ext4: Remove empty index blocks when punching holes
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 18:54:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120305235430.GA12796@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1202290916590.4926@dhcp-27-109.brq.redhat.com>
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:18:54AM +0100, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> >
> > Alrighty then, sounds good. This patch seemed to correct the loop discard bug
> > we saw earlier for me. So please make sure you have some similar fix in your
> > new patch. Basically we had some extra index blocks hanging around when the
> > depth was greater than one, so the patch just adds some code to free up those
> > index blocks in the path if they are empty. Hope this helps! Thx! :)
>
> Actually I started to modifying the punch hole code in order to find
> that bug and this problem does go away with my pathes. I'll CC
> you on the patches when I send them out.
OK, so my understanding is that Lukas's patches solve the same problem
as Allison's, and those are the patches I should review and integrate?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-05 23:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-29 7:37 [PATCH 1/1] ext4: Remove empty index blocks when punching holes Allison Henderson
2012-02-29 7:44 ` Lukas Czerner
2012-02-29 8:15 ` Allison Henderson
2012-02-29 8:18 ` Lukas Czerner
2012-03-05 23:54 ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2012-03-06 7:11 ` Lukas Czerner
2012-03-06 16:44 ` Ted Ts'o
[not found] ` <4F565962.1020604@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-03-06 18:42 ` Allison Henderson
2012-03-07 7:05 ` Lukas Czerner
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