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* [PATCH 0/9 bigalloc] ext4: change unit of extent's ee_block and ee_len from block to cluster
@ 2011-11-09 11:16 Robin Dong
  2011-11-09 11:17 ` [PATCH 1/9 bigalloc] ext4: get blocks from ext4_ext_get_actual_blocks Robin Dong
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From: Robin Dong @ 2011-11-09 11:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-ext4; +Cc: Robin Dong

From: Robin Dong <sanbai@taobao.com>

Hi,

This patch series change ee_block and ee_len (of extent) 's unit from "block" to "cluster",
since it could reduce the space occupied by meta data.

This patch series should be used after Ted's bigalloc-patchs and it now can't support:
1. delay allocation
2. 1k/2k blocksize


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2011-11-09 11:16 [PATCH 0/9 bigalloc] ext4: change unit of extent's ee_block and ee_len from block to cluster Robin Dong
2011-11-09 11:17 ` [PATCH 1/9 bigalloc] ext4: get blocks from ext4_ext_get_actual_blocks Robin Dong
2011-11-09 11:17 ` [PATCH 2/9 bigalloc] ext4: change ext4_ext_map_blocks to allocate clusters instead of blocks Robin Dong
2011-11-09 11:17 ` [PATCH 3/9 bigalloc] ext4: change unit of ee_block of extent to cluster Robin Dong
2011-11-09 11:17 ` [PATCH 4/9] ext4: remove unused functions and tags Robin Dong
2011-11-09 11:17 ` [PATCH 5/9 bigalloc] ext4: zero out extra pages when users write one page Robin Dong
2011-11-09 11:17 ` [PATCH 6/9 bigalloc] ext4: zero out extra pages when truncate file Robin Dong
2011-11-09 11:17 ` [PATCH 7/9 bigalloc] ext4: allocate a cluster for a directory when it need spaces Robin Dong
2011-11-09 11:17 ` [PATCH 8/9 bigalloc] ext4: align fallocate size to a whole cluster Robin Dong
2011-11-09 11:17 ` [PATCH 9/9 bigalloc] ext4: make cluster works for mmap Robin Dong

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