On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 04:34:09PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 03:30:44PM -0800, Mingming Cao wrote:
> > Since the API takes the number of bytes to preallocate, at return time,
> > shall we convert the blocks to bytes to the user?
> >
> > Here it returns the number of allo
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 16:34 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
> Hi Mingming,
> > And, Looking at other places calling ext4_*_get_blocks() in the kernel,
> > it seems not all of them protected by i_mutex lock. I think it probably
> > okay to not holding i_mutex during calling ext4_ext4_get_blocks().
>
>
Hi Mingming,
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 03:30:44PM -0800, Mingming Cao wrote:
> looks good to me, a few comments :)
Thanks for your comments!
> .
> > + ret = ext4_ext_get_blocks(handle, inode, block,
> > + max_blocks, &map_bh,
> > +
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 18:05 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
> This is the first patch in the set of two.
>
> It implements the ioctl which will be used for persistent preallocation. It
> is a respun of the previous patch which was posted earlier, and includes
> following changes:
> * Takes care of r
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 02:12:06PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Minor edits (not worth a resubmit by itself):
Thanks, Andreas ! I will take care of these comments in the next
submission.
Regards,
Amit Arora
>
> On Dec 19, 2006 16:35 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
> > + /* ext4_can_exte
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:05:28PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
> --- linux-2.6.19.prealloc.orig/fs/ext4/ioctl.c2006-12-15
> 16:44:35.0 +0530
> +++ linux-2.6.19.prealloc/fs/ext4/ioctl.c 2006-12-15 17:47:00.0
> +0530
:
:
> + handle=ext4_journal_start(inode,
>
This is the first patch in the set of two.
It implements the ioctl which will be used for persistent preallocation. It is
a respun of the previous patch which was posted earlier, and includes following
changes:
* Takes care of review comments by Mingming
* The declaration of extent related macro
