From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000 [ext4_new_meta_blocks+0x7c/0xb7]
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 00:08:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090102050854.GH17821@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081209104121.GA7572@skywalker>
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 04:11:22PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>
> I have one question regarding the patch. What about blocks allocated for
> directories for the ext3 format. With extent format we are not
> setting EXT4_MB_HINT_DATA for non regular files. So i guess we also
> need the below patch .
I've updated the remove-ext4_new_blocks to include your suggested
patch. I would like to try implementing a new, more intelligent
allocation algorithm later, though.
- Ted
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-02 5:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-09 10:41 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000 [ext4_new_meta_blocks+0x7c/0xb7] Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-12-12 14:56 ` Theodore Tso
2008-12-17 7:56 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-12-17 11:47 ` Theodore Tso
2008-12-17 16:25 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-12-18 8:55 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-01-02 5:08 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
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