From: Alex Tomas Subject: Re: [RFC] ext4-locality-groups patch Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:21:41 +0300 Message-ID: References: <45800965.2080005@bull.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Alex Tomas , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from [80.71.248.82] ([80.71.248.82]:40889 "EHLO gw.home.net" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964774AbWLMO3G (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:29:06 -0500 To: Valerie Clement In-Reply-To: <45800965.2080005@bull.net> (Valerie Clement's message of "Wed\, 13 Dec 2006 15\:08\:37 +0100") Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org >>>>> Valerie Clement (VC) writes: VC> Hi Alex, VC> I did the following test: VC> # mkfs /dev/sdc1 VC> # mount -t ext4dev -o extents,mballoc,delalloc /dev/sdc1 /test VC> # dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdc1 VC> # cp linux.tar /test VC> # tar xf /test/linux.tar VC> # dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdc1 VC> The "Free blocks" and "Free inodes" counters in the dumpe2fs output VC> did not change after running the cp and tar commands. sync should help, I think. VC> I think it misses a call to ext4_commit_super() at the end of the VC> ext4_lg_sync_inodes function. VC> Am I right ? what for? allocation was delayed, no blocks were allocated. thanks, Alex