On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 09:32:53PM +0800, Yongqiang Yang wrote: > This patch teaches ext4 to get free blocks count of BLOCK_UNINIT groups from > group desc directly. > > Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@xxxxxxxxx> The reason why we weren't doing this is because older versions of e2fsprogs I don't think set the free blocks count correctly. Or at least, I have a vague memory that this was the case. I'll have to do some code archeology before can be 100% sure this is safe to do. Regards, - 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