From: Yongqiang Yang Subject: ext4: let ext4 get free blocks count of uninit groups from desc Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:32:52 +0800 Message-ID: <1311168774-26378-1-git-send-email-xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com> Cc: tytso@mit.edu To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:51641 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751541Ab1GTNh0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:37:26 -0400 Received: by iwn6 with SMTP id 6so190698iwn.19 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:37:25 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi all, I do not know why ext4 does not get free blocks count of BLOCK_UNINIT groups from group descriptors directly in the past. But now, according to e2fsprogs and code of kernel side we can get free blocks count from descriptors for BLOCK_UNINIT groups, rather than compute it. This can simplifies code a lot.