On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 04:45:52PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Because we can badly over-reserve metadata when we > calculate worst-case, it complicates things for quota, since > we must reserve and then claim later, retry on EDQUOT, etc. > Quota is also a generally smaller pool than fs free blocks, > so this over-reservation hurts more, and more often. > > I'm of the opinion that it's not the worst thing to allow > metadata to push a user slightly over quota. This simplifies > the code and avoids the false quota rejections that result > from worst-case speculation. This patch series looks good to me in general; Jan, it requires relatively minor changes to the quota system, so it would be good to get your Acked-by for the first two patches. Since the changes to the ext4 layer are more in-depth, any objections if I carry all three patches in the ext4 tree? - Ted -- 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
