Re: [PATCH 1/2] Btrfs-progs: make convert to allocate space from the desired type of block group

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On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 09:38:09AM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> Since btrfs-convert has been reworked to use a completely new method to 
> do such allocation, now it doesn't need any custom_alloc_extent() function.
> 
> And its new chunk lay out is designed to only put metadata chunk into 
> large enough unused space, and data chunks will cover all used space.
> 
> So there is no need for such patch AFAIK.

I agree, and I think that the motivation for the convert rewrite was the
same problem that these patches address.

> And the new convert is already in devel branch.

The plan is to release 4.6 with this patchset, I'm still not decided
about the low-mem mode for checker.
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