Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 12/16] fix race between writeback and unlink | From | Chris Mason <> | Date | 03 Jun 2002 18:36:23 -0400 |
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On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 18:19, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On 3 Jun 2002, Chris Mason wrote: > > > > Or am I missing something? > > No. I think that in the long run we really would want all of the writeback > preallocation should happen in the "struct file", not in "struct inode". > And they should be released at file close ("release()"), not at iput() > time.
reiserfs does preallocation and tail packing in release() right now, but do we really need preallocation at all once delayed allocation is stable?
-chris
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