From: Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: Ext4 devel interlock meeting minutes (October 1, 2007) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 23:58:31 -0600 Message-ID: <20071002055831.GH5702@schatzie.adilger.int> References: <47017053.9060005@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Avantika Mathur Return-path: Received: from mail.clusterfs.com ([74.0.229.162]:47271 "EHLO mail.clusterfs.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751064AbXJBF6h (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 01:58:37 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47017053.9060005@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Oct 01, 2007 15:10 -0700, Avantika Mathur wrote: > Delayed Allocation: > - There has been an lkml thread about these patches. > - We have and approach that works for ext4, implemented at the vfs > level, but unless we can prove it can work for other filesystems, it > will not be accepted. > - Christoph Hellwig has commented that these patches will not work for > XFS. Hmm, but I thought that Christoph also agreed that it would be OK to get the ext4 delalloc code merged separately, so long as it doesn't need big/any changes to the VFS to implement it. It might be that the ext4 and XFS code is different enough that they cannot share the delayed allocation code. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc.