On Thursday 10 January 2008 13:17, Abhishek Rai wrote:Your results are very impressive. In my opinion, the sooner this goes in, the better, since everybody hates waiting for fsck. The only issue that jumps out at me is, the patch is big and changes a significant amount of Ext3 code outside of the metacluster path, which is not a bad thing except that these changes are going to need to be tested fairly heavily. The way to do that is, put a big [CALL FOR TESTING] in your subject line the next time you post, and use an attention-getting subject line like "Make Ext3 fsck way faster". Diff the patch against the latest stable kernel to make things as easy as possible for the people who are hopefully going to download your patch, try it, and report their results. The other way is just to ask Andrew to put it in -mm when you feel ready, but your chances are much better if you already have people sending in mails saying how great your patch is. Another thing you might consider is a port to Ext4. After all, the world has waited this long for your patch, so it can likely survive waiting a little longer. You somehow seem to have missed attracting the attention of Jon Corbet, a rare occurrence for a patch of this significance. With the subject line modified as above, you are more likely to get the attention you deserve. Good luck! Regards, Daniel --
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