From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Monakhov Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ext4: don't use quota reservation for speculative metadata blocks Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:52:53 +0400 Message-ID: <87633whj62.fsf@openvz.org> References: <4BBCFD10.3030504@redhat.com> <87sk76tkx9.fsf@openvz.org> <4BBDF610.8030906@redhat.com> <87eiimtjne.fsf@openvz.org> <20100412131530.GB12238@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <87iq7whk2t.fsf@openvz.org> <20100412134228.GL1849@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jan Kara , Eric Sandeen , ext4 development To: tytso@mit.edu Return-path: Received: from mailhub.sw.ru ([195.214.232.25]:15399 "EHLO relay.sw.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751432Ab0DLNxe (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:53:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100412134228.GL1849@thunk.org> (tytso@mit.edu's message of "Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:42:28 -0400") Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: tytso@mit.edu writes: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 05:33:14PM +0400, Dmitry Monakhov wrote: >> BTW I'm too familiar with cross-devel-tree process >> If tytso@ will get the patchset will you get an quota-related patches >> to linux-fs tree too? Otherwise everybody have to wait for ext4-tree >> push to linus's tree and when to linux-fs. > > I've already asked Jan if he would mind my carrying the quota patches > in the ext4 tree, since I believe there's less chance of patch > collisions with upcoming changes in the quota tree than if they were > carried in the quota tree and we had to worry about changes to the > ext4 tree. Yess. i do understand that both interesting in common quota-related peace. > > These patches are also low-risk enough (they'll either work or they > won't, and it's not hard to desk-check them for correctness) that we > could push them to Linus now before the merge window, and see if he's > willing to take them. I have some data corruption bugfixes I need to > push to Linus anyway.... I dunno if Linus will be willing to take > them, but that's the other approach. > > - Ted Both options is too complex (as least for my tiny brain) Is is possible to accept quota related patches in both(linux-fs and ext4) tires at least in for-next branches. Seems that git is able to detect equivalent patches via cherry-picking-like mechanisms.