[PATCH] process orphan list if device transitions to readonly

2006-12-12 Thread Eric Sandeen
I have a patch in -mm now to skip orphan inode processing on a read-only device (where IO may fail if issued), but Stephen points out that if the device ever transitions back to readwrite, and the filesystem is remounted as rewrite, we should process the orphan inode list at that point. Today,

Re: [RFC] ext4-locality-groups patch

2006-12-12 Thread Valerie Clement
Alex Tomas wrote: this patch implements locality groups idea in a very simplified form. the policy is silly and -sync_inodes() not very well tested on different workloads. thanks, Alex Hi Alex, I applied your patches to a 2.6.19-rc6 kernel. After creating and mounting an ext4 filesystem

Re: [RFC] ext4-locality-groups patch

2006-12-12 Thread Alex Tomas
Valerie Clement (VC) writes: VC The crash occurs because ei-i_locality_group is not well initialized. VC The patch in attachment fixes the problem on my system (x86_64). thanks! strange that I didn't hit this on i386 ... and gcc doesn't warn. thanks, Alex - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [RFC][Patch 1/1] Persistent preallocation in ext4

2006-12-12 Thread Mingming Cao
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 11:53 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: Hi Mingming, Hi Amit, On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 05:28:15PM -0800, Mingming Cao wrote: On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 11:28 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: @@ -1142,13 +1155,22 @@ /* try to insert block into found extent and return */