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From: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
To: suparna@in.ibm.com
Cc: ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	alex@clusterfs.com
Subject: Re: Re: Reviewing ext3 improvement patches (delalloc, mballoc, extents)
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 15:29:46 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050304152946.5fb24686.alex@clusterfs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050304111331.GA4063@in.ibm.com>

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:43:31 +0530
Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com> wrote:

> Alex, have you had a chance to prototype your idea of rooting extents
> in ea ?

I think all you need for this are:

1) allocate EA in ext3_new_inode()
2) write a replacement for ext3_init_tree_desc()
   just few lines of code
3) write .get_write_access and .mark_buffer_dirty methods
   again few lines
4) use replacement of ext3_init_tree_desc() in few places

thanks, Alex


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-04 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-03  8:33 Reviewing ext3 improvement patches (delalloc, mballoc, extents) Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-03-03  9:40 ` Andreas Dilger
2005-03-03 22:10   ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-03-03 22:30     ` Alex Tomas
2005-03-04 11:13   ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-03-04 12:29     ` Alex Tomas [this message]
2005-03-04 18:25       ` [Ext2-devel] " Andreas Dilger
2005-03-04  1:12 ` [Ext2-devel] " Badari Pulavarty
2005-03-04  1:46   ` Mingming Cao
2005-03-04  3:26     ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-03-14  8:36     ` Werner Almesberger
2005-03-14  9:04       ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-03-14 15:02         ` Werner Almesberger
2005-03-14 15:43           ` Alex Tomas
2005-03-14 16:37             ` [Ext2-devel] " Werner Almesberger
2005-03-14 17:13               ` Alex Tomas
2005-03-15  0:28                 ` Werner Almesberger
2005-03-14 22:23               ` Bryan Henderson
2005-03-15  0:42                 ` Werner Almesberger
2005-03-15 21:59                   ` Bryan Henderson
2005-03-04 11:30   ` [Ext2-devel] " Alex Tomas
2005-03-04 15:02   ` Alex Tomas
2005-03-13 14:41     ` Delayed alloc for ordered-mode Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-03-13 19:32       ` Badari Pulavarty

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