Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/2 v2] ocfs2: make xattr extension work with new local alloc reservation.

On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 02:53:11PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote: The old ocfs2_xattr_extent_allocation is too optimistic about the clusters we can get. So actually if the file system is too fragmented, ocfs2_add_clusters_in_btree will return us with EGAIN and we need to allocate clusters once again.

[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/2 v2] ocfs2: make xattr extension work with new local alloc reservation.

The old ocfs2_xattr_extent_allocation is too optimistic about the clusters we can get. So actually if the file system is too fragmented, ocfs2_add_clusters_in_btree will return us with EGAIN and we need to allocate clusters once again. So this patch change it to a while loop so that we can

Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/2 v2] ocfs2: make xattr extension work with new local alloc reservation.

On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 02:53:11PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote: The old ocfs2_xattr_extent_allocation is too optimistic about the clusters we can get. So actually if the file system is too fragmented, ocfs2_add_clusters_in_btree will return us with EGAIN and we need to allocate clusters once again.