[libvirt] [PATCH 2/9] storage: Always assume we are tracking alloc progress in FS backend

[Cole Robinson]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 04:46:59PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> We do support allocation progress now, so have the code accomodate.
>> ---
>>  src/storage_backend_fs.c |   49 +++++++++++++++-------------------------------
>>  1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
> 
> Do later patches have a dependancy on this ?
> 
> The allocation progress tracking you mention is actually WRT to
> a 2nd thread calling virStorageVolGetInfo while the first thread
> is doing the work. AFAIK, that would not be impacted by either 
> of these 2 code paths.  The 'track_allocation_progress' variable
> was a placeholder for the case where we do proper async non-blocking
> vol creation from a single thread.
> 
> By switching this code to use the iterative allocation, it will 
> increase the number of ext4 extents required for large files 
> which is not so desirable. So I think its better to just leave
> this code in as is, or remove the other code path.
> 

This change was just a (attempted) cleanup. I'll drop it.

Thanks,
Cole