On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Dave Chinner <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 01:36:47AM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 10:27:53PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote:
>> >> From: Zhi Yong Wu <[email protected]>
>> >>
>> >> Enable O_TMPFILE support in linkat().
>> >> For more info, please refer to:
>> >>   http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2013-08/msg00341.html
>> >
>> > Generall you should provide all reasonable information in the changelog
>> > instead of linking to it.
>> will apply this, thanks.
>> >
>> >> +     if (sip->i_d.di_nlink == 0)
>> >> +             tres = &M_RES(mp)->tr_link_tmpfile;
>> >> +     else
>> >> +             tres = &M_RES(mp)->tr_link;
>> >
>> > As mentioned before I think Dave wanted you to always use the same
>> > reservation, but I'll leave that discussion to him.
>> If as you said, when some tons of regular files are created, it won't
>> waste some disk space? e.g. some files want to reserve some space, but
>> get NOSPACE due to other files reserving additional space?
>
> This is a log space reservation, not a disk space reservation. End
> either way, what is unused by the transaction is returned to the
> free space pool at the end of the transaction. So for simplicity,
> we should just use the one reservation for the link transaction -
> take whichever is larger at calculation time.
Good explaination, thanks Dave and Christoph. By the way, can you help
check if the log reservation for adding/removing one inode to/from
unlinked list is correct? or  will you check after i post next version
out?

>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
> --
> Dave Chinner
> [email protected]



-- 
Regards,

Zhi Yong Wu
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