[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 2/2] OCFS2: Allow huge (> 16 TiB) volumes to mount

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Andreas Dilger <adilger at dilger.ca> wrote:
> On 2010-07-12, at 19:08, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
>>
>> Are you suggesting I need to do this before my patch is accepted at
>> all?  Or is this a refactoring that can happen later?
>
> I'm just suggesting it should be done at some point.  I thought it would be better to do it first, rather than add yet another copy of this code.  That said, I hate to block useful fixes because of cleanup (and I have no control over OCFS2 anyway :-).  However, I've found that once the fix is in people usually forget (or become too busy) to do the cleanup and it just lingers on unseen.

I hear you.

I do not object to factoring out the basic addressability test and
using it in my patch, leaving it for others -- like yourself :-) -- to
modify other file systems to invoke it.

Does that sound like a reasonable compromise?  If so, where should the
function live and what should it be called, do you think?

 - Pat