A small ext3 update. It fixes a few hard-to-hit but potentially
serious problems. The patch is against 2.4.18-pre3, and is also
applicable to 2.4.17.
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/ext3-2.4-0.9.17-2418p3.gz
0.9.17 12 Jan 2002
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- Cleanup from Manfred Spraul which provides better randomisation of inode
generation numbers.
- A locking fix which prevents possible panics when an application is
using ioctl(FIBMAP) against a loaded filesystem.
- Buffer locking fix for journal descriptor buffers - fixes the
"end_request: buffer-list destroyed" crash which can occur under
heavy VM load.
- Fix a buffer locking problem which could cause corruption if a process
is reading from the underlying block device while journal recovery is
in progress.
-
On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 01:00, Andrew Morton wrote:
> A small ext3 update. It fixes a few hard-to-hit but potentially
> serious problems. The patch is against 2.4.18-pre3, and is also
> applicable to 2.4.17.
I didn't see any feedback so I wanted to confirm success on my
2.4.18-pre4 UP machine. Survived prolonged use and some initial
stressing. Good job.
Robert Love
Same on 2-way 1GB and 6-way 4GB boxes where I could easily reproduce one
of the issues.
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Ken.
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On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 06:10:29PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
| On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 01:00, Andrew Morton wrote:
| > A small ext3 update. It fixes a few hard-to-hit but potentially
| > serious problems. The patch is against 2.4.18-pre3, and is also
| > applicable to 2.4.17.
|
| I didn't see any feedback so I wanted to confirm success on my
| 2.4.18-pre4 UP machine. Survived prolonged use and some initial
| stressing. Good job.
|
| Robert Love
|
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Similar experience here. Has withstood abuse on my UP and SMP machines
(a variety of 2.4.17 and 2.4.18-pre4). Thanks!
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 06:10:29PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 01:00, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > A small ext3 update. It fixes a few hard-to-hit but potentially
> > serious problems. The patch is against 2.4.18-pre3, and is also
> > applicable to 2.4.17.
>
> I didn't see any feedback so I wanted to confirm success on my
> 2.4.18-pre4 UP machine. Survived prolonged use and some initial
> stressing. Good job.
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