Re: [PATCH 1/5][TAKE8] manpage for fallocate

Mark Fasheh
2007-07-19T05:37:45Z

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 03:10:52PM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> % git-log 84e1e99f112dead8f9ba036c02d24a9f5ce7f544 |head -10
> commit 84e1e99f112dead8f9ba036c02d24a9f5ce7f544
> Author: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
> Date: Mon Jun 18 16:50:27 2007 +1000
>
> [XFS] Prevent ENOSPC from aborting transactions that need to succeed
>
> During delayed allocation extent conversion or unwritten extent
> conversion, we need to reserve some blocks for transactions reservations.
> We need to reserve these blocks in case a btree split occurs and we need
> to allocate some blocks.
>
> ------
>
> IOWs, XFS didn't provide this guarantee until about a month ago....

Ok, once again XFS is ahead of the curve ;)

Comment rescinded then...
--Mark

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Mark Fasheh
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