From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Subject: Re: EXT4 ENOSPC Bug
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:18:45 +0100
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On 02/18/2009 10:29 PM, Theodore Tso wrote:
> Ok, that's good.  Good to know the workaround works.
> Can you send me a dumpe2fs of the filesystem in question?  I'm curious
> what was going on...
Will do as soon as I am at the same place as the machine. I guess thats 
only interesting to you privately (size and so on)?

> Thanks for the report.  I'll push the workaround patch to Linus for
> 2.6.29 to avoid this problem for now.  I recently sent to linux-ext4
> for comment a patch to revamp the Orlov allocator for flex_bg and to
> use that instead of find_group_flex(), but no way that's going into
> 2.6.29 at this point....
Would it be helpfull if I test that patch?

Andres