[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 01/15] ocfs2/xattr: Only extend xattr bucket in need.

Mark Fasheh mfasheh at suse.com
Thu Nov 6 11:45:31 PST 2008


On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 01:42:11PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> When the first block of a bucket is filled up with xattr
> entries, we normally extend the bucket. But if we are
> just replace one xattr with small length, we don't need
> to extend it. This is important since we will calculate
> what we need before the transaction and in this situation
> no resources will be allocated.

Ok, looks good. Am I correct in thinking that this is a fix which should go
upstream before 2.6.28 is out?
	--Mark

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Mark Fasheh



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