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From: tytso@mit.edu
To: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Remove blocks from inode prealloc list on failure
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 22:21:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091209032111.GZ27692@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6601abe90912041114m37284332pd568e13ed5beee2b@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 11:14:40AM -0800, Curt Wohlgemuth wrote:
> > Can you name it as discard allocated blocks and add a comment saying why
> > we don't need it for MB_GROUP_PA ? Otherwise
> >
> > Acked-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> This fixes a leak of blocks in an inode prealloc list if device failures
> cause ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used() to fail.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>

Added to the ext4 patch queue, thanks.

					- Ted

      reply	other threads:[~2009-12-09  3:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-01 18:17 [PATCH] ext4: Remove blocks from inode prealloc list on failure Curt Wohlgemuth
2009-12-04  1:10 ` tytso
2009-12-04  9:43   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-12-04  9:46 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-12-04 19:14   ` Curt Wohlgemuth
2009-12-09  3:21     ` tytso [this message]

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