[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/2 v2] ocfs2: make xattr extension work with new local alloc reservation.

[Joel Becker]

On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 02:53:11PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> The old ocfs2_xattr_extent_allocation is too optimistic about
> the clusters we can get. So actually if the file system is
> too fragmented, ocfs2_add_clusters_in_btree will return us
> with EGAIN and we need to allocate clusters once again.
> 
> So this patch change it to a while loop so that we can allocate
> clusters until we reach clusters_to_add.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma at oracle.com>

	Let me know if and when these patches pass the xattr test suite.
IRC is fine.  They look good, so they're queued up.

Joel

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