On 10/13/2010 04:11 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
Why would you ever update the header, apart from relocating L1 for some reason?To update the L1/L2 tables clean bit. That's what prevents a check in the normal case where you have a clean shutdown.
I see - so you wouldn't update it every allocation, only when the disk has been quiet for a while.
-- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.