Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261352AbTH2P2s (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:28:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261357AbTH2P2r (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:28:47 -0400 Received: from mx2.it.wmich.edu ([141.218.1.94]:47489 "EHLO mx2.it.wmich.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261352AbTH2P2p (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:28:45 -0400 Message-ID: <3F4F7129.1050506@wmich.edu> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:28:41 -0400 From: Ed Sweetman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030722 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Tomas CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [RFC] extents support for EXT3 References: <3F4E4605.6040706@wmich.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 989 Lines: 31 Alex Tomas wrote: >>>>>>Ed Sweetman (ES) writes: > > > ES> This patch seems to be against test2, just wondering if anyone before > ES> me has used it on the latest test release. If not then i'm gonna do > ES> something stupid and be the first. > > I would be happy to see anyone trying this patch ;) > > following patch applies to -test4 o If it's the same as test2 then i've already tried it. I got no performance gains as far as dbench is concerned. Perhaps my block size is not optimal on that partition for extents. Either way it seemed to make the kernel unstable and i've been trying to fix things since mid-day yesterday. Been getting very strange problems, no error messages are reported or anything like that. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/