Hi, On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 02:17:47PM +0200, Tomas Szepe wrote: > > 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. > > Is there at least a remote possibility of the fixes getting ported > to be included in the linux-2.2 ext3 patch (the latest being 0.0.7a?)? No, there's no need. The changes come in several groups: Performance tweaks: * Speed up MS_SYNC writes * speed up fsyncs in non-journaled data modes a little Config/cosmetic tweaks: * Set up kjournald to be parented under init properly * config: ext3 is no longer experimental Fix bugs introduced at various stages during the 2.4 port: * don't consider ENOSPC a fatal error when allocating an inode * fix over-zealous ext3 complaint about locked buffers * fix O_SYNC * fix tiny race where a buffer could be written to disk too soon Fix bugs arising from changes made elsewhere during 2.4: * fix i_blocks getting inconsistent after disk full * fix "dump corrupts filesystems" core VFS bug * fix very rare buffer leak Fix a bug in the LVM interaction (code isn't present in 2.2): * fix LVM snapshot deadlock None of the bug-fixes apply to the 2.2 version of the code. Cheers, Stephen
