/*
* linux/fs/ext3/balloc.c
*
* Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995
* Remy Card (card@masi.ibp.fr)
* Laboratoire MASI - Institut Blaise Pascal
* Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
*
* Enhanced block allocation by Stephen Tweedie (sct@redhat.com), 1993
* Big-endian to little-endian byte-swapping/bitmaps by
* David S. Miller (davem@caip.rutgers.edu), 1995
*/
#include <linux/config.h>
#include <linux/time.h>
#include <linux/capability.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/jbd.h>
#include <linux/ext3_fs.h>
#include <linux/ext3_jbd.h>
#include <linux/quotaops.h>
#include <linux/buffer_head.h>
/*
* balloc.c contains the blocks allocation and deallocation routines
*/
/*
* The free blocks are managed by bitmaps. A file system contains several
* blocks groups. Each group contains 1 bitmap block for blocks, 1 bitmap
* block for inodes, N blocks for the inode table and data blocks.
*
* The file system contains group descriptors which are located after the
* super block. Each d
