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From: Alex Tomas <bzzz@tmi.comex.ru>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: Alex Tomas <bzzz@tmi.comex.ru>, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] concurrent block allocation for ext2 against 2.5.64
Date: 15 Mar 2003 00:14:36 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31y198xc3.fsf@lexa.home.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030314135910.P12806@schatzie.adilger.int>

>>>>> Andreas Dilger (AD) writes:

 AD> Could you make it a pre-requisite to the concurrent-alloc patch?
 AD> That would make it a shoo-in to being accepted (cleans up code
 AD> nicely).

Andrew already asked to wait until next -mm

 AD> The point of having the reserved blocks is to reduce
 AD> fragmentation in file allocation.  Having per-group reserved
 AD> blocks is a good idea, because it keeps the reserved "slack" per
 AD> group, and helps file allocations within that group have a bit of
 AD> free space in which to grow.  If you are reserving all of the
 AD> blocks at the end of the filesystem, then the earlier groups will
 AD> become 100% allocated prematurely and lose any ability to keep
 AD> files there contiguous.

well. looks like I miss something here. I thought reservation is not
allocation policy, but mechanism to protect some user (root, usually)
from fs overflow


  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-14 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-13  8:55 [PATCH] concurrent block allocation for ext2 against 2.5.64 Alex Tomas
2003-03-13  9:58 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-13 19:17   ` Alex Tomas
2003-03-13 22:25     ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-13 23:03       ` Andreas Dilger
2003-03-13 23:10         ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-13 23:03       ` Alex Tomas
2003-03-13 23:25         ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-13 23:56     ` Andreas Dilger
2003-03-14  7:20       ` Alex Tomas
2003-03-14 20:59         ` Andreas Dilger
2003-03-14 21:14           ` Alex Tomas [this message]
2003-03-15  4:37         ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-15  4:54           ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-15  5:30             ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-15  5:43               ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-15  5:50                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-15  5:49             ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-15  6:20               ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-15  6:44                 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-15  7:05                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-15  8:24                     ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-15  9:47                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-15 11:58                         ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-15 12:08                           ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-15 12:25                             ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-15  8:16                   ` [Ext2-devel] " Alex Tomas
2003-03-15  8:29                     ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-15  8:32                       ` Alex Tomas
2003-03-15  9:23                         ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-14 18:25       ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-14 19:30       ` [Ext2-devel] " Daniel Phillips
2003-03-14 19:55         ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-13 17:39 ` [Ext2-devel] " Andreas Dilger
2003-03-13 18:43   ` Alex Tomas
2003-03-13 19:09     ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-03-13 19:39       ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-13 19:23   ` Theodore Ts'o
2003-03-13 19:44     ` Andreas Dilger

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