[PATCH] Fixup Orlov block allocator for ext2
I finally had time to look at the Orlov patches, and found a memory leak; sbi->s_debts wasn't getting freed when the filesystem was getting unmounted, or in the error path. This patch also makes the following cleanups/changes: 1) Use sbi->s_debts instead of sbi->debts --- all other fields in struct ext2_sb_info are prefixed by "s_", so this makes things consistent. 2) Add support for a new inode flag, EXT2_TOPDIR_FL, which tells tells the Orlov allocator to treat that directory as the top of directory hierarchies, so that new subdirectories created in that directory should be spread apart. System administrators should set this flag on directories like /usr/src, /usr/home, etc. 3) Add a mount-time flag, -o oldalloc, which forces the use of the old inode (pre-Orlov) allocator. This makes it easier to do comparison benchmarks, and in case people want to use the old algorithm.
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