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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Li Xi <pkuelelixi@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v4 1/6] Always read full inode structure
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 00:46:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160306054622.GK10297@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1457237696-13770-2-git-send-email-lixi@ddn.com>

On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 01:14:51PM +0900, Li Xi wrote:
> Project quota need use some extra field of inode for computing quota
> accounting, this patch tries to use ext2fs_get_next_inode_full()
> everywhere to read full inode into memeory.
> 
> It also fixes a bug that only copy small inode in the function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Shilong <wshilong@ddn.com>

Um, no.  Most of the places where we are currently using
ext2fs_get_next_inode() is because they **don't** need the full inode.
For example, consider debugfs's icheck command.  Why would it need the
project quota id?  Answer: it doesn't.

If you think there is a bug, or some place where we should be using
the large inode, fine.  Let's take a look at it.  But doing a whole
sale conversion of ext2fs_get_next_inode() to
ext2fs_get_next_inode_full() makes e2fsprogs much less efficient, and
for no good purpose.

					- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-06  5:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-06  4:14 [v4 0/6] Add project quota support for e2fsprogs Li Xi
2016-03-06  4:14 ` [v4 1/6] Always read full inode structure Li Xi
2016-03-06  5:46   ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2016-03-06  6:27     ` Andreas Dilger
2016-03-06 19:31       ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-03-06  4:14 ` [v4 2/6] Clean up codes for adding new quota type Li Xi
2016-03-06  4:14 ` [v4 3/6] Add project feature flag EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_PROJECT Li Xi
2016-03-06  4:14 ` [v4 4/6] Add project quota support Li Xi
2016-03-06  4:14 ` [v4 5/6] Add inherit flags for project quota Li Xi
2016-03-06  4:14 ` [v4 6/6] Add project ID support for chattr/lsattr Li Xi
2016-03-06  5:56   ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-03-06 10:49     ` Li Xi

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