Re: Regarding ext4 allocation and deallocation of blocks

[Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi.... :)

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Akshay Nehe <akshaynehe785@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I again open file for modification( file with 9217 block) and new
> block is 8708 but this time kernel used ext4_free_blocks to deallocate
> 9217 block. What is the reason behind this behaviour? Please help me
> in this issue, if anyone familiar with such behaviour.

So, in other word, it deallocate current blocks and "move" onto new
blocks,right?

sounds like a way to do wear levelling in filesystem level to me..

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Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer and consultant

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