Re: [PATCH] fix dir2 shortform structures on ARM old ABI

[Mark Goodwin <markgw@sgi.com>]

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 
> heh, thanks Mark.  Even though it's only CORRUPTION ON ARM I guess the
> shouting worked.  :)

Well, we're dealing with apparent insidious corruption after
failed btree AG allocations (which aren't supposed to fail).
This seems to stem from the fixes for the ENOSPC deadlock bugs
(two years ago, see below). you and Nathan probably remember
this ..?

Timothy Shimmin wrote:
> Okay some history in xfs-dev archives on this bug...
> plenty of reading here :)
> Reverse chronological order with initial report from
> guy at NEC:
>
> May 2006
> Review thread b/w Nathan and Ying Ping:
> http://ils.corp.sgi.com/Archives/xfs-dev/200605/msg00128.html
>
> April 2006
> Thread - dgc, Ying, nathan
> http://ils.corp.sgi.com/Archives/xfs-dev/200604/msg00005.html
>
> March 2006 - 2 threads
> http://ils.corp.sgi.com/Archives/xfs-dev/200603/msg00002.html
> http://ils.corp.sgi.com/Archives/xfs-dev/200603/msg00140.html
>
> Feb 2006
> http://ils.corp.sgi.com/Archives/xfs-dev/200602/msg00062.html
> Initial report and suggested test case by Asano Masahiro - NEC
> (fwd'ed by Eric).
> Plenty of commentary by Asano.
> Thread - including comments by Steve Lord:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.xfs.general/13268 

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