On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Phillip Susi wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2/24/2012 9:57 AM, Lukas Czerner wrote: > >> I do not see how the group would become UNINIT again, so there is > >> not reason to discard it. Previously we could count free block > >> through out several groups (accounting or BLOCK_UNINIT groups as > >> well. We do not do that now, because we discard every group > >> separately. > > Simple; delete some files. Once all blocks in the block group are > free again, it can go back to UNINIT. Also the fs may have been > formatted without discard, or moved with dd, or any number of ways > that the bock allocation bitmap could still use a discard despite > being uninitialized. It does not work that way, uinit is never set back. If it has been formated without discard it is user choice, moving the image to the thinly provisioned device, or ssd with dd is really bad idea anyway. That said, UNINIT means that it has not been used and hence there should be nothing to reclaim. -Lukas > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPR7MrAAoJEJrBOlT6nu751oMIAN4YsKxC5XjHOTyif0U4Pffj > x0TCcXW+0BS6bOfwvGq/3DLO9oCJXOh6mCIPxNNJZJ0NQt0t6yLmpnuZIw7AXzJT > +WCxduNxnu9e/bIy1vzKlwcUkzd+lb8XIljEcO9RBDj+3LUFT4YYlCE8yiITze8V > EZiE81U1IJtguhWzqFQmOsJrH0KP5kb7BE36yn5I+yfs5YYc3CyMrqi4SVpdv4gX > /+YoroJCEa89nsk6pluk+uAGPd/gxeSC6w32YjJqaM5bVLpiD6yhKsqIXNQK8HzB > uXNxZvvrHLBBQtp31+r0yy90K3eQmc2ycwn54DKkK+vOioH7Q2AB+s8YTxr/Hq0= > =DOVr > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- 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
