From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tao Ma Subject: Re: big allocation status Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:01:54 +0800 Message-ID: <4DED8692.3010302@tao.ma> References: <4DE83F83.6070302@tao.ma> <20110604033805.GD2614@thunk.org> <20110606230421.GF20818@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ext4 development To: Ted Ts'o Return-path: Received: from oproxy8-pub.bluehost.com ([69.89.22.20]:37926 "HELO oproxy8-pub.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754406Ab1FGCB7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2011 22:01:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110606230421.GF20818@thunk.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/07/2011 07:04 AM, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 11:38:05PM -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 09:57:23AM +0800, Tao Ma wrote: >>> Hi Ted, >>> >>> Do you have any new branch or patch set that can be used for testing >>> about big allocation? The latest patch set in the mailist is what you >>> have sent at the beginning of May. Do you have an updated one? We will >>> try to test it soon and it would grateful if we are on the same page. >> >> There is a patch set available at: >> >> git://repo.or.cz/ext4-patch-queue.git >> >> The bigalloc patches are after the stable-boundary, and will apply >> against 3.0-rc1. > > I've updated the bigalloc patch set to fix a number of bugs that I and > a colleague of mine at Google have found. > > This patch set known have problems with i_blocks getting out of sync > if delalloc is enabled (particularly with sparse files and truncates), > and as mentioned before, doesn't work correctly with the punch ioctl. > These are bugs that we plan to fix before anything gets pushed into > upstream, of course. cool, I will base my test on it. Thanks. Regards, Tao