Re: Linux 2.4.16-pre1

Marc A. Ohmann
2001-11-24T21:09:35Z

> Hi,
>
> So here it goes 2.4.16-pre1. Obviously the most important fix is the
> iput() one, which probably fixes the filesystem corruption problem people
> have been seeing.
>
> Please, people who have been experiencing the fs corruption problems test
> this and tell me its now working so I can release a final 2.4.16 ASAP.
>
>
> - Correctly sync inodes in iput() (Alexander Viro)
> - Make pagecache readahead size tunable via /proc (was in -ac tree)
> - Fix PPC kernel compilation problems (Paul Mackerras)

I build Andrea's patch and everything seemed to work fine. I am building 2.4.16-pre1 on two systems right now. What can I check to test the iput() patch or any other patches?

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