Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 20:10:31 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Where/how to submit for review patch for shrink support?
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On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 09:52:21PM +0300, Iustin Pop wrote:
> Hello to all,
> 
> I would like to know in what form should I submit my patch and where
> (probably to the list). The diff I have was made against 2.6.12.5 and
> applies/compiles cleanly against 2.6.13 also.

Please try to rediff it against the CVS tree at oss.sgi.com (there's not
much differences, it's just the development tree), and then submit it to
the list.

> Now the patch does not include memory management stuff (except for a
> simple resizing of mp->m_perag if we chop an entire a.g.), since I
> didn't understand this issue. Also I'm not sure what can happen in some
> inodes or data is in the cache but not flushed, or if this can even
> happen when using transactions. Since xfs_growfs_data_private didn't
> contain any such stuff, I presumed shrink doesn't also. Probably wrong
> assumption...

Yeah, that sounds a little fishy.  I'll take a look at the patch once
you'll post it.