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. -
