Hello, Mingming Cao wrote: >> Summary of patches: >> * These patches are replaced with ext4 online defrag patches >> which are already in the ext4 git tree (linux-2.6.26-rc8). >> >> [PATCH 1/8] Exchange the blocks between two inodes >> - Exchange the data blocks between the temporary inode and >> the original inode. >> >> [PATCH 2/8] Read and write file data with memory page >> - Read the file data from the old blocks to the page and >> write the file data on the page into the new blocks. >> >> [PATCH 3/8] Allocate new contiguous blocks with mballoc >> - Search contiguous free blocks with mutil-block allocation >> and allocate them for the temporary inode. >> >> [PATCH 4/8] Main function of ext4 online defrag and ioctl implementation >> - Create the temporary inode and do defrag per >> defrag_size (defalut 64MB). >> > > I am curious about the ordering here. It seems reverse the order of the > first 4 patches make the logic more clear to me, start from patch 4, > then 3, then 2 and last 1? At lease when I read the describtion of the > first patch I was puzzled by a minute what is this coming from > > Just share my thoughts. > Ah, as you said, the ordering the patches is confusing. I'll reconstruct my patches order(4-3-2-1-5-6-7-8) to be clear in the future release. Thanks, Akira -- 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
