On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 09:20:55AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 02:07:19PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > Hi Zheng, > > > > FYI, there are new smatch warnings show up in > > > > tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git dev > > head: b2f1a8e5612e2488a3995ec06b422b44651d088b > > commit: 3e1b02687146ddefa8e53c2a5e13d3bd87b16b09 [47/50] ext4: add support for hole punching non-extent-mapped files > > I'm going to be dropping the indirect punch hole patches from the ext4 > dev tree, based on the number of xfstests failures that I found in my > overnight testing. > > I had hoped the changes were small and localized, and wouldn't cause > problems if the punch hole feature wasn't used, but at this point, > given that many distributions are starting to use the ext4 file system > for legacy ext3 file systems, my judgement is that the risks are too > great for the upcoming merge window; so this will probably need to > wait for the next development cycle. Hi Ted, These patches would need to do more tests, and I will look at them in next development cycle. I am not sure whether indirect punch hole is really useful for us or not. What do you think about this feature? Thanks Regards, Zheng -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
