From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: EXT4 ENOSPC Bug Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:22:44 -0500 Message-ID: <20090219032244.GW3600@mini-me.lan> References: <200811291418.24672.andres@anarazel.de> <200812100108.04163.andres@anarazel.de> <49994FEF.2020908@anarazel.de> <20090216150156.GD22619@mini-me.lan> <499985C7.8010302@anarazel.de> <20090216190001.GB11788@mini-me.lan> <499AF598.7080400@anarazel.de> <499C7B41.1090800@anarazel.de> <20090218212957.GR3600@mini-me.lan> <499CC185.6050904@anarazel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Alex Buell , adilger@sun.com, LKML , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" To: Andres Freund Return-path: Received: from THUNK.ORG ([69.25.196.29]:42092 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750914AbZBSFBM (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:01:12 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <499CC185.6050904@anarazel.de> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 03:18:45AM +0100, Andres Freund wrote: > 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? > Sure, I'll take all of the testing I can get. :-) The patch is in the ext4 patch queue, and I sent them to the ext4 patch queue. The patch is also in patch work: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/23343/ The patch which I sent you earlier (available below) is a prequisite: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/23228/ - Ted