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From: Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext2: avoid needless discard of preallocated blocks
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:41:02 -0700
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On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 08:33:29AM -0700, Val Henson wrote:
> On 8/20/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> >maybe porting the reservation code to ext2 (as Val has done) is a nicer
> >long term solution..
> 
> The even nicer solution long term solution is to abstract out the
> reservation code as much as possible and share it.   But if you want
> my (hasty and unlovely) port, you can grab it out of this patch:
> 
> http://infohost.nmt.edu/~val/patches/fswide_latest_patch

As it turns out, I already split it out:

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~val/patches/resv_only_patch

I added this to the Easy File System Projects wiki:

http://linuxfs.pbwiki.com/EasyFsProjects

-VAL