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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 10/21] buffer heads: Support slab defrag
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 18:56:09 -0700 (PDT)
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On Wed, 21 May 2008, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:

> Cristoph, is this example you wnated to check out? It will only try to
> write .nr_to_write pages between .range_start and .range_end without
> syncing inode info itself.

Well that is what Dave wants. I'd rather go the safe route for now and 
defer this until later. I think you are much more an expert on the 
filesystems and I/O paths than I am. So I'd rather take my hands of as 
soon as possible.