On Wed, 13 Mar 2013, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:25:21 -0400 > From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> > To: Lukáš Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Metadata reservation for unwritten extent conversion > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 05:09:51PM +0100, Lukáš Czerner wrote: > > > > Well, we can not actually revert that patch because it introduces > > da_reserve_metadata() which is used elsewhere in the commit: > > > > ext4: reserve metadata block for every delayed write > > > > I can resend the patch which uses da_reserve_metadata() so you can use > > it instead the old version > > That sounds like the best thing to do. I assume you will be simply > taking the da_reserve_metadata() function introduced in the > to-be-dropped commit: > > > ext4: Reserve metadata if writing into uninitialized > > ... and moving it into the "reserve metadata block for every delayed > write" patch? Exactly. -Lukas > > - Ted
