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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/ext4/migrate.c, branch v2.6.34.4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h</title>
<updated>2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-24T08:04:11+00:00</published>
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: fix error handling in migrate</title>
<updated>2010-03-02T04:14:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Monakhov</name>
<email>dmonakhov@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-02T04:14:36+00:00</published>
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Set i_nlink to zero for temporary inode from very beginning.
otherwise we may fail to start new journal handle and this
inode will be unreferenced but with i_nlink == 1
Since we hold inode reference it can not be pruned.

Also add missed journal_start retval check.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Set i_nlink to zero for temporary inode from very beginning.
otherwise we may fail to start new journal handle and this
inode will be unreferenced but with i_nlink == 1
Since we hold inode reference it can not be pruned.

Also add missed journal_start retval check.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: Use bitops to read/modify EXT4_I(inode)-&gt;i_state</title>
<updated>2010-01-24T19:34:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-24T19:34:07+00:00</published>
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At several places we modify EXT4_I(inode)-&gt;i_state without holding
i_mutex (ext4_release_file, ext4_bmap, ext4_journalled_writepage,
ext4_do_update_inode, ...). These modifications are racy and we can
lose updates to i_state. So convert handling of i_state to use bitops
which are atomic.

Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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At several places we modify EXT4_I(inode)-&gt;i_state without holding
i_mutex (ext4_release_file, ext4_bmap, ext4_journalled_writepage,
ext4_do_update_inode, ...). These modifications are racy and we can
lose updates to i_state. So convert handling of i_state to use bitops
which are atomic.

Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: quota macros cleanup</title>
<updated>2009-12-09T03:42:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Monakhov</name>
<email>dmonakhov@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-09T03:42:15+00:00</published>
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Currently all quota block reservation macros contains hard-coded "2"
aka MAXQUOTAS value. This is no good because in some places it is not
obvious to understand what does this digit represent. Let's introduce
new macro with self descriptive name.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mingming Cao &lt;cmm@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Currently all quota block reservation macros contains hard-coded "2"
aka MAXQUOTAS value. This is no good because in some places it is not
obvious to understand what does this digit represent. Let's introduce
new macro with self descriptive name.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mingming Cao &lt;cmm@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: call ext4_forget() from ext4_free_blocks()</title>
<updated>2009-11-23T12:17:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-23T12:17:05+00:00</published>
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Add the facility for ext4_forget() to be called from
ext4_free_blocks().  This simplifies the code in a large number of
places, and centralizes most of the work of calling ext4_forget() into
a single place.

Also fix a bug in the extents migration code; it wasn't calling
ext4_forget() when releasing the indirect blocks during the
conversion.  As a result, if the system cashed during or shortly after
the extents migration, and the released indirect blocks get reused as
data blocks, the journal replay would corrupt the data blocks.  With
this new patch, fixing this bug was as simple as adding the
EXT4_FREE_BLOCKS_FORGET flags to the call to ext4_free_blocks().

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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Add the facility for ext4_forget() to be called from
ext4_free_blocks().  This simplifies the code in a large number of
places, and centralizes most of the work of calling ext4_forget() into
a single place.

Also fix a bug in the extents migration code; it wasn't calling
ext4_forget() when releasing the indirect blocks during the
conversion.  As a result, if the system cashed during or shortly after
the extents migration, and the released indirect blocks get reused as
data blocks, the journal replay would corrupt the data blocks.  With
this new patch, fixing this bug was as simple as adding the
EXT4_FREE_BLOCKS_FORGET flags to the call to ext4_free_blocks().

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: Split uninitialized extents for direct I/O</title>
<updated>2009-09-28T19:49:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mingming Cao</name>
<email>cmm@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-28T19:49:08+00:00</published>
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When writing into an unitialized extent via direct I/O, and the direct
I/O doesn't exactly cover the unitialized extent, split the extent
into uninitialized and initialized extents before submitting the I/O.
This avoids needing to deal with an ENOSPC error in the end_io
callback that gets used for direct I/O.

When the IO is complete, the written extent will be marked as initialized.

Singed-Off-By: Mingming Cao &lt;cmm@us.ibm.com&gt; 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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When writing into an unitialized extent via direct I/O, and the direct
I/O doesn't exactly cover the unitialized extent, split the extent
into uninitialized and initialized extents before submitting the I/O.
This avoids needing to deal with an ENOSPC error in the end_io
callback that gets used for direct I/O.

When the IO is complete, the written extent will be marked as initialized.

Singed-Off-By: Mingming Cao &lt;cmm@us.ibm.com&gt; 
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: store EXT4_EXT_MIGRATE in i_state instead of i_flags</title>
<updated>2009-09-17T12:32:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-17T12:32:22+00:00</published>
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EXT4_EXT_MIGRATE is only intended to be used for an in-memory flag,
and the hex value assigned to it collides with FS_DIRECTIO_FL (which
is also stored in i_flags).  There's no reason for the
EXT4_EXT_MIGRATE bit to be stored in i_flags, so we switch it to use
i_state instead.

Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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EXT4_EXT_MIGRATE is only intended to be used for an in-memory flag,
and the hex value assigned to it collides with FS_DIRECTIO_FL (which
is also stored in i_flags).  There's no reason for the
EXT4_EXT_MIGRATE bit to be stored in i_flags, so we switch it to use
i_state instead.

Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: Add missing unlock_new_inode() call in extent migration code</title>
<updated>2009-08-26T02:36:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-08-26T02:36:05+00:00</published>
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We need to unlock the new inode before iput.  This patch fixes the
following warning when calling chattr +e to migrate a file to use
extents.  It also fixes problems in when e4defrag attempts to
defragment an inode.

[  470.400044] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  470.400065] WARNING: at fs/inode.c:1210 generic_delete_inode+0x65/0x16a()
[  470.400072] Hardware name: N/A
.....
...
[  470.400353] Pid: 4451, comm: chattr Not tainted 2.6.31-rc7-red-debug #4
[  470.400359] Call Trace:
[  470.400372]  [&lt;ffffffff81037771&gt;] warn_slowpath_common+0x77/0x8f
[  470.400385]  [&lt;ffffffff81037798&gt;] warn_slowpath_null+0xf/0x11
[  470.400395]  [&lt;ffffffff810b7f28&gt;] generic_delete_inode+0x65/0x16a
[  470.400405]  [&lt;ffffffff810b8044&gt;] generic_drop_inode+0x17/0x1bd
[  470.400413]  [&lt;ffffffff810b7083&gt;] iput+0x61/0x65
[  470.400455]  [&lt;ffffffffa003b229&gt;] ext4_ext_migrate+0x5eb/0x66a [ext4]
[  470.400492]  [&lt;ffffffffa002b1f8&gt;] ext4_ioctl+0x340/0x756 [ext4]
[  470.400507]  [&lt;ffffffff810b1a91&gt;] vfs_ioctl+0x1d/0x82
[  470.400517]  [&lt;ffffffff810b1ff0&gt;] do_vfs_ioctl+0x483/0x4c9
[  470.400527]  [&lt;ffffffff81059c30&gt;] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
[  470.400537]  [&lt;ffffffff810b2087&gt;] sys_ioctl+0x51/0x74
[  470.400549]  [&lt;ffffffff8100ba6b&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[  470.400557] ---[ end trace ab85723542352dac ]---

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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We need to unlock the new inode before iput.  This patch fixes the
following warning when calling chattr +e to migrate a file to use
extents.  It also fixes problems in when e4defrag attempts to
defragment an inode.

[  470.400044] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  470.400065] WARNING: at fs/inode.c:1210 generic_delete_inode+0x65/0x16a()
[  470.400072] Hardware name: N/A
.....
...
[  470.400353] Pid: 4451, comm: chattr Not tainted 2.6.31-rc7-red-debug #4
[  470.400359] Call Trace:
[  470.400372]  [&lt;ffffffff81037771&gt;] warn_slowpath_common+0x77/0x8f
[  470.400385]  [&lt;ffffffff81037798&gt;] warn_slowpath_null+0xf/0x11
[  470.400395]  [&lt;ffffffff810b7f28&gt;] generic_delete_inode+0x65/0x16a
[  470.400405]  [&lt;ffffffff810b8044&gt;] generic_drop_inode+0x17/0x1bd
[  470.400413]  [&lt;ffffffff810b7083&gt;] iput+0x61/0x65
[  470.400455]  [&lt;ffffffffa003b229&gt;] ext4_ext_migrate+0x5eb/0x66a [ext4]
[  470.400492]  [&lt;ffffffffa002b1f8&gt;] ext4_ioctl+0x340/0x756 [ext4]
[  470.400507]  [&lt;ffffffff810b1a91&gt;] vfs_ioctl+0x1d/0x82
[  470.400517]  [&lt;ffffffff810b1ff0&gt;] do_vfs_ioctl+0x483/0x4c9
[  470.400527]  [&lt;ffffffff81059c30&gt;] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
[  470.400537]  [&lt;ffffffff810b2087&gt;] sys_ioctl+0x51/0x74
[  470.400549]  [&lt;ffffffff8100ba6b&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[  470.400557] ---[ end trace ab85723542352dac ]---

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: teach the inode allocator to use a goal inode number</title>
<updated>2009-06-13T15:45:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Dilger</name>
<email>adilger@sun.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-13T15:45:35+00:00</published>
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Enhance the inode allocator to take a goal inode number as a
paremeter; if it is specified, it takes precedence over Orlov or
parent directory inode allocation algorithms.

The extents migration function uses the goal inode number so that the
extent trees allocated the migration function use the correct flex_bg.
In the future, the goal inode functionality will also be used to
allocate an adjacent inode for the extended attributes.

Also, for testing purposes the goal inode number can be specified via
/sys/fs/{dev}/inode_goal.  This can be useful for testing inode
allocation beyond 2^32 blocks on very large filesystems.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@sun.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Enhance the inode allocator to take a goal inode number as a
paremeter; if it is specified, it takes precedence over Orlov or
parent directory inode allocation algorithms.

The extents migration function uses the goal inode number so that the
extent trees allocated the migration function use the correct flex_bg.
In the future, the goal inode functionality will also be used to
allocate an adjacent inode for the extended attributes.

Also, for testing purposes the goal inode number can be specified via
/sys/fs/{dev}/inode_goal.  This can be useful for testing inode
allocation beyond 2^32 blocks on very large filesystems.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@sun.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4: Use a hash of the topdir directory name for the Orlov parent group</title>
<updated>2009-06-13T15:09:42+00:00</updated>
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<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
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<published>2009-06-13T15:09:42+00:00</published>
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Instead of using a random number to determine the goal parent grop for
the Orlov top directories, use a hash of the directory name.  This
allows for repeatable results when trying to benchmark filesystem
layout algorithms.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Instead of using a random number to determine the goal parent grop for
the Orlov top directories, use a hash of the directory name.  This
allows for repeatable results when trying to benchmark filesystem
layout algorithms.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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