From: Alex Tomas Subject: Re: [RFC] ext4-locality-groups patch Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:54:06 +0300 Message-ID: References: <45800965.2080005@bull.net> <45801018.1090001@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]:37132 "EHLO gw.home.net" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964972AbWLMOyY (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:54:24 -0500 To: Valerie Clement In-Reply-To: <45801018.1090001@bull.net> (Valerie Clement's message of "Wed\, 13 Dec 2006 15\:37\:12 +0100") Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org >>>>> Valerie Clement (VC) writes: VC> Alex Tomas wrote: >>>>>>> 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> No, I've just tried, it does not change anything. ah, it's simple. you're looking at superblock counters. we don't update them every time. this was changed years ago. try the same with regular ext3 thanks, Alex