Re: Nick's scheduler v18

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 02:27:51PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:39:06AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > What filesystem was being used?
> > 
> > If it was ext2 then perhaps you hit the recently-fixed block allocator
> > race.  That fix was merged after test9.  Please check the kernel logs for
> > any filesystem error messages.
> > 
> > Also, please retry the run, see if it is repeatable.
> 
> Did that hit ext3 also?  ISTR, getting some "access beyond end of device"
> while running ext3.

BTW, i did encounter some problem with amiga partitions which had some
bad values due to a bug in libparted now fixed. The head size was
counted double or something such, which resulted in accesses beyon the
end of the device. It has a funny effect though. The box would freeze,
and the IDE led would flash in 1 second intervals. Not sure it is the
expected behavior. This is with a 2.4.22 kernel, both on x86 and ppc.

Friendly,

Sven Luther