From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, sandeen@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] e2fsck: Do not discard itable if discard doen't zero data
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:39:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120311193930.GG1048@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330933776-2696-4-git-send-email-lczerner@redhat.com>
On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 08:49:36AM +0100, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> We do not want to discard inode table if the underlying device does not
> return zeros when reading non-provisioned blocks. The reason is that if
> the inode table is not zeroed yet, then discard would not help us since
> we would have to zero it anyway. In the case that inode table was
> already zeroed, then the discard would cause subsequent reads to contain
> non-deterministic data so we would not be able to assume that the inode
> table was zeroed and we would need to zero it again, which does not
> really make sense.
>
> This commit adds check to prevent inode table from being discarded if
> the discard does not zero data.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Applied, thanks.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-11 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-05 7:49 [PATCH 1/4] e2fsck: Discard only unused parts of inode table Lukas Czerner
2012-03-05 7:49 ` [PATCH 2/4] e2fsck: Do not forget to discard last block group Lukas Czerner
2012-03-05 19:29 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-03-11 19:18 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-11 19:33 ` [PATCH 1/3] e2fsck: remove last argument from e2fsck_discard_blocks() Theodore Ts'o
2012-03-11 19:33 ` [PATCH 2/3] e2fsck: do not forget to discard last block group Theodore Ts'o
2012-03-12 7:31 ` Lukas Czerner
2012-03-11 19:33 ` [PATCH 3/3] e2fsck: optimize CPU usage in check_{block,inode}_bitmaps() Theodore Ts'o
2012-03-12 7:44 ` Lukas Czerner
2012-03-12 7:30 ` [PATCH 1/3] e2fsck: remove last argument from e2fsck_discard_blocks() Lukas Czerner
2012-03-05 7:49 ` [PATCH 3/4] e2fsck: Do not discard when in read only mode Lukas Czerner
2012-03-05 19:33 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-03-11 19:35 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-05 7:49 ` [PATCH 4/4] e2fsck: Do not discard itable if discard doen't zero data Lukas Czerner
2012-03-05 19:46 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-03-11 19:39 ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2012-03-05 17:45 ` [PATCH 1/4] e2fsck: Discard only unused parts of inode table Eric Sandeen
2012-03-05 18:43 ` Lukas Czerner
2012-03-05 19:01 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-03-11 19:27 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-12 7:26 ` Lukas Czerner
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