On Oct 01, 2007 15:10 -0700, Avantika Mathur wrote: > Delayed Allocation: > - There has been an lkml thread about these patches. > - We have and approach that works for ext4, implemented at the vfs > level, but unless we can prove it can work for other filesystems, it > will not be accepted. > - Christoph Hellwig has commented that these patches will not work for > XFS. Hmm, but I thought that Christoph also agreed that it would be OK to get the ext4 delalloc code merged separately, so long as it doesn't need big/any changes to the VFS to implement it. It might be that the ext4 and XFS code is different enough that they cannot share the delayed allocation code. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
