From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: Rename uninitialized extents to unwritten
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 10:28:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140412142840.GF13837@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1397150063-5939-2-git-send-email-lczerner@redhat.com>
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 07:14:23PM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> Currently in ext4 there is quite a mess when it comes to naming
> unwritten extents. Sometimes we call it uninitialized and sometimes we
> refer to it as unwritten.
>
> The right name for the extent which has been allocated but does not
> contain any written data is _unwritten_. Other file systems are
> using this name consistently, even the buffer head state refers to it as
> unwritten. We need to fix this confusion in ext4.
>
> This commit changes every reference to an uninitialized extent (meaning
> allocated but unwritten) to unwritten extent. This includes comments,
> function names and variable names. It even covers abbreviation of the
> word uninitialized (such as uninit) and some misspellings.
>
> This commit does not change any of the code paths at all. This has been
> confirmed by comparing md5sums of the assembly code of each object file
> after all the function names were stripped from it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Thanks, queued.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-12 14:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-10 17:14 [PATCH 1/2] ext4: Get rid of EXT4_MAP_UNINIT flag Lukas Czerner
2014-04-10 17:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] ext4: Rename uninitialized extents to unwritten Lukas Czerner
2014-04-12 14:28 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2014-04-17 0:15 ` mingming cao
2014-04-17 8:13 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-04-12 14:26 ` [PATCH 1/2] ext4: Get rid of EXT4_MAP_UNINIT flag Theodore Ts'o
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