From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Moyer Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] dio: add a mempool for the unaligned block structures Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 10:40:37 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1289202023-15102-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <1289202023-15102-4-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Chinner Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:2111 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751421Ab0KHPoU (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Nov 2010 10:44:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1289202023-15102-4-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> (Dave Chinner's message of "Mon, 8 Nov 2010 18:40:23 +1100") Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Dave Chinner writes: > From: Dave Chinner > > We need the zero block tracking structure allocation to succeed. > Silently failing and potentially allowing data corruption is not an > option. Add a mempool to ensure this allocation will always succeed. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Acked-by: Jeff Moyer