From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: 2.6.21-ext4-1 Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:58:56 -0400 Message-ID: <20070430155856.GC10604@thunk.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Johann Lombardi , "Amit K. Arora" , Dave Chinner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org Sorry, I forgot to include the URL's where ext4 development patchset can be found: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/ext4-patches/2.6.21-ext4-1 - Ted On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:14:57AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > I've respun the ext4 development patchset, with Amit's updated fallocate > patches. I've added Dave's patch to add ia64 support to the fallocate > system call, but *not* the XFS fallocate support patches. (Probably > better for them to live in an xfs tree, where they can more easily > tested and updated.) Yes, we haven't reached complete closure on the > fallocate system call calling convention, but it's enough for us to get > more testing in -mm. > > Also added Johann's jbd2-stats-through-procfs patches; it provides > useful help in turning the size of the journal, which will be useful in > benchmarking efforts. In addition, Alex Tomas's patch to free > just-allocated patches when there is an error inserting the extent into > the extent tree has also been included. > > The patches have been compile-tested on x86, and compile/run-tested on > x86/UML. Would appreciate reports about testing on other platforms. > > Thanks, > > - Ted > > P.S. One bug which I've noted --- if there is a failure due to disk > filling up, running e2fsck on the filesystem will show that the i_blocks > fields on the inodes where there was a failure to allocate disk blocks > are left incorrect. I'm guessing this is a bug in the delayed > allocation patches. Alex, when you have a moment, could you take a > look? Thanks!!