[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: Count more refcount records in file system fragmentation.

[Joel Becker]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 01:56:45PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> The refcount record calculation in ocfs2_calc_refcount_meta_credits
> is too optimistic that we can always allocate contiguous clusters
> and handle an already existed refcount rec as a whole. Actually
> because of file system fragmentation, we may have the chance to split
> a refcount record into 3 parts during the transaction. So consider
> the worst case in record calculation.
> 
> Cc: stable at kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma at oracle.com>

This patch is now in the fixes branch of ocfs2.git.

Joel

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