ext3-2.4-0.9.16

ext3-2.4-0.9.16

[Andrew Morton]

A small ext3 update.  It fixes a few hard-to-hit but potentially
serious problems.  The patch is against 2.4.18-pre3, and is also
applicable to 2.4.17.

	http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/ext3-2.4-0.9.17-2418p3.gz


0.9.17  12 Jan 2002
-------------------

- Cleanup from Manfred Spraul which provides better randomisation of inode
  generation numbers.

- A locking fix which prevents possible panics when an application is
  using ioctl(FIBMAP) against a loaded filesystem.

- Buffer locking fix for journal descriptor buffers - fixes the
  "end_request: buffer-list destroyed" crash which can occur under
  heavy VM load.

- Fix a buffer locking problem which could cause corruption if a process
  is reading from the underlying block device while journal recovery is
  in progress.

-

Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.16

[Robert Love]

On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 01:00, Andrew Morton wrote:
> A small ext3 update.  It fixes a few hard-to-hit but potentially
> serious problems.  The patch is against 2.4.18-pre3, and is also
> applicable to 2.4.17.

I didn't see any feedback so I wanted to confirm success on my
2.4.18-pre4 UP machine.  Survived prolonged use and some initial
stressing.  Good job.

	Robert Love

Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.16

[Ken Brownfield]

Same on 2-way 1GB and 6-way 4GB boxes where I could easily reproduce one
of the issues.

-- 
Ken.
brownfld@irridia.com


On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 06:10:29PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
| On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 01:00, Andrew Morton wrote:
| > A small ext3 update.  It fixes a few hard-to-hit but potentially
| > serious problems.  The patch is against 2.4.18-pre3, and is also
| > applicable to 2.4.17.
| 
| I didn't see any feedback so I wanted to confirm success on my
| 2.4.18-pre4 UP machine.  Survived prolonged use and some initial
| stressing.  Good job.
| 
| 	Robert Love
| 
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Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.16

[Dan Chen]

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Similar experience here. Has withstood abuse on my UP and SMP machines
(a variety of 2.4.17 and 2.4.18-pre4). Thanks!

On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 06:10:29PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 01:00, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > A small ext3 update.  It fixes a few hard-to-hit but potentially
> > serious problems.  The patch is against 2.4.18-pre3, and is also
> > applicable to 2.4.17.
> 
> I didn't see any feedback so I wanted to confirm success on my
> 2.4.18-pre4 UP machine.  Survived prolonged use and some initial
> stressing.  Good job.

-- 
Dan Chen                 crimsun@email.unc.edu
GPG key:   www.unc.edu/~crimsun/pubkey.gpg.asc

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