Sorry - seems like I sent without the cover letter. Rational: the xfs_trans_alloc + xfs_trans_reserve combination is super confusing, and when recently debugging the block reservation issues in the reflink code I got reminded of my old series to sort this out, so I dusted it off, tested it and here were are. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs