From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 16 May 2002 12:56:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 16 May 2002 12:56:45 -0400 Received: from pc-62-31-66-178-ed.blueyonder.co.uk ([62.31.66.178]:50051 "EHLO sisko.scot.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 16 May 2002 12:56:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 17:56:37 +0100 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" To: ext3-users@redhat.com, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Stephen Tweedie , Andrew Morton , Andreas Dilger Subject: Ext3-0.9.18 available Message-ID: <20020516175637.A21624@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, ext3-0.9.18 is now available for 2.4.19-pre8. Some of the fixes in this release are already in the 2.4.19-pre8, but there are some important new fixes in the patch and users are encouraged to upgrade. This release fixes all known outstanding bug reports. The full patch against linux-2.4.19-pre8, and a tarball of the individual fixes in this patch set, is now propagating to ftp://ftp.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/sct/ext3/v2.4/ The full list of changes is included below. Cheers, Stephen --- ChangeLog: * Speed up MS_SYNC writes * Set up kjournald to be parented under init properly * config: ext3 is no longer experimental * fix i_blocks getting inconsistent after disk full * speed up fsyncs in non-journaled data modes a little * don't consider ENOSPC a fatal error when allocating an inode * fix LVM snapshot deadlock * fix "dump corrupts filesystems" core VFS bug * fix over-zealous ext3 complaint about locked buffers * fix very rare buffer leak * fix O_SYNC * fix tiny race where a buffer could be written to disk too soon