On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 01:08:34PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > In that light, why not continue to use an inode to map the exclude bitmap > blocks, where the bitmap offset is (group * blocksize), instead of > explicitly listing all of the blocks in the group descriptor? This is > how the buddy bitmap works in memory only, but it could be done for the > exclude bitmap on disk. I seem to recall the use of an inode to map the exclude bitmap added a huge amount of complexity to the snapshot patches. Amir, am I remembering this correctly? - 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
