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From: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>,
	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: booked-page-flag.patch
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:56:55 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hctm3588.fsf@bzzz.home.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070215234640.d52e5908.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Thu\, 15 Feb 2007 23\:46\:40 -0800")

>>>>> Andrew Morton (AM) writes:

 AM> Well, one could just assume that the page has no disk mapping and go and
 AM> make the space reservation.  Things will work out OK when we come to do
 AM> writepage().

 AM> Or one could do both: call get_block() only if the page was inside i_size.

well, even so we need to reserve not that block ony, but
also needed metadata (for the worst case). probably this
is work for get_block or some different method? anyway,
we have to call it if the page is being written partial. 

thanks, Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-16  7:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-15  8:45 booked-page-flag.patch Andrew Morton
2007-02-15 14:03 ` booked-page-flag.patch Alex Tomas
2007-02-15 17:18 ` booked-page-flag.patch Eric Sandeen
2007-02-15 17:30   ` booked-page-flag.patch Alex Tomas
2007-02-15 20:56     ` booked-page-flag.patch Andrew Morton
2007-02-15 21:07       ` booked-page-flag.patch Alex Tomas
2007-02-15 23:23         ` booked-page-flag.patch Andrew Morton
2007-02-16  7:30           ` booked-page-flag.patch Alex Tomas
2007-02-16  7:46             ` booked-page-flag.patch Andrew Morton
2007-02-16  7:56               ` Alex Tomas [this message]
2007-02-16  8:06                 ` booked-page-flag.patch Andrew Morton
2007-02-16 12:14                   ` booked-page-flag.patch Andreas Dilger
2007-02-16 16:02               ` booked-page-flag.patch Dave Kleikamp
2007-02-16 15:03           ` booked-page-flag.patch Theodore Tso
2007-02-15 20:21   ` booked-page-flag.patch Andrew Morton
2007-02-16 12:17   ` booked-page-flag.patch Andreas Dilger

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