Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix punch hole on files with indirect mapping

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On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:24:50 -0400
> From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> To: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, jack@xxxxxxx, stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix punch hole on files with indirect mapping
> 
> I like the performance improvement of your patch, but I'm concerned
> that it might be a bit too complicated to push outside of the merge
> window.
> 
> So what I propose doing is this.  We'll take Jan's patches and after
> testing, we'll push it to Linus.  Then for the the 3.17 merge window,
> after we've had more opportunity for testing and for other folks to
> review your changes, we can queue this patch (or its successor).
> 
> Does that seem like a good path forward?
> 
> 						- Ted

It does. But this is not exactly a critical bug and it has been
there since the introduction of punch hole for indirect file. But I
guess it's better to fix it sooner rather than later, so I am fine
with this.

Thanks!
-Lukas
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