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

2006-12-13 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 04:20:38PM -0800, Mingming Cao wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 11:53 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: + + if (!(EXT4_I(inode)-i_flags EXT4_EXTENTS_FL)) + return -ENOTTY; Supporting preallocation for extent based files seems fairly

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

2006-12-13 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 15:31 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 04:20:38PM -0800, Mingming Cao wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 11:53 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: Supporting preallocation for extent based files seems fairly straightforward. I agree we should look at this first.

Re: [RFC] ext4-locality-groups patch

2006-12-13 Thread Valerie Clement
Alex Tomas wrote: +/* + * entry function for inode syncing + * it's responsbility is to sort all inode out in their locality groups + */ +void ext4_lg_sync_inodes(struct super_block *sb, struct writeback_control *wbc) +{ + struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(sb); + struct

Re: [RFC] ext4-locality-groups patch

2006-12-13 Thread Eric Sandeen
Alex Tomas wrote: Valerie Clement (VC) writes: VC Hi Alex, VC I did the following test: VC # mkfs /dev/sdc1 VC # mount -t ext4dev -o extents,mballoc,delalloc /dev/sdc1 /test VC # dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdc1 VC # cp linux.tar /test VC # tar xf /test/linux.tar VC # dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdc1 VC

Re: [RFC] ext4-locality-groups patch

2006-12-13 Thread Alex Tomas
Valerie Clement (VC) writes: VC Alex Tomas wrote: Valerie Clement (VC) writes: VC Hi Alex, VC I did the following test: VC # mkfs /dev/sdc1 VC # mount -t ext4dev -o extents,mballoc,delalloc /dev/sdc1 /test VC # dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdc1 VC # cp linux.tar /test VC # tar xf

Ext4 devel interlock meeting minutes (Dec. 13 2006)

2006-12-13 Thread AVANTIKA R. MATHUR
Ext4 Developer Interlock Call: 12-13-06 Minutes Attendees: Mingming Cao, Dave Kleikamp(Shaggy), Andreas Dilger, Eric Sandeen, Ted Ts'o, Takashi Sato, Badari Pulavarty, Jean-Pierre Dion, Jean Noel Cordenner, Valérie Clément, Avantika Mathur Minutes can be accessed at: