Re: [PATCH] ext4: Don't reuse released data blocks untill transaction commits

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On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 09:02:08PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> We need to make sure we don't reuse the data blocks released
> during the transaction untill the transaction commits. We force
> this mode only for ordered and journalled mode. Writeback mode
> already don't provided data consistency.

It might be a good idea in ext4_free_mb_metadata() to add a comment
that the name of the function is a little bit of a misnomer...

BTW, you may want to check what I put in the patch queue, because
iirc, I fixed up a few spelling/grammar in the patch comments.

      	      	       			       - Ted
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