From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix small file fragmentation Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:13:09 +0530 Message-ID: <20080816044309.GC6423@skywalker> References: <1218735880-10915-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20080814231816.GA13048@mit.edu> <20080815175243.GD6511@skywalker> <20080815180745.GE6511@skywalker> <20080815200502.GC22395@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: cmm@us.ibm.com, sandeen@redhat.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Theodore Tso Return-path: Received: from E23SMTP06.au.ibm.com ([202.81.18.175]:36357 "EHLO e23smtp06.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750952AbYHPEnS (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:43:18 -0400 Received: from sd0109e.au.ibm.com (d23rh905.au.ibm.com [202.81.18.225]) by e23smtp06.au.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m7G4gXdg008382 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:42:33 +1000 Received: from d23av03.au.ibm.com (d23av03.au.ibm.com [9.190.234.97]) by sd0109e.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.0) with ESMTP id m7G4hF6h166990 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:43:15 +1000 Received: from d23av03.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av03.au.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m7G4hEOZ027086 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:43:15 +1000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080815200502.GC22395@mit.edu> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 04:05:02PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > Aneesh, thanks! Chris Mason also pointed us at this proposed patch, > where he seems to be tracking a very similar issue for btrfs. I don't > know if you've seen it.... > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/25560 > I have a done a similar change in the patch I sent. I also observed wrong values in the writeback_index for range_cyclic mode. Well as suggested in the thread I will move it to file system. But I don't seen anything being mentioned about the fragmentation issue in the thread. -aneesh