On Fri, Dec 11 2009, Eric Sandeen wrote: > ext4, at least, would like to start pushing on writeback if it starts > to get close to ENOSPC when reserving worst-case blocks for delalloc > writes. Writing out delalloc data will convert those worst-case > predictions into usually smaller actual usage, freeing up space > before we hit ENOSPC based on this speculation. > > Thanks to Jens for the suggestion for the helper function, > & the naming help. > > I've made the helper return status on whether writeback was > started even though I don't plan to use it in the ext4 patch; > it seems like it would be potentially useful to test this > in some cases. Eric, how do you want to merge these? I can easily take this first one through any branch, but I suppose the ext4 one should go through the proper ext4 channels. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
