Guys, I have recently applied the latest 2.4 htree patch on a heavily loaded nfs server. The nfs server serves around four very busy clients that deliver email in maildir format and pop3/imap clients. Being maildir I presumed that the htree patch would improve performance - but I was wrong. Load on the server went up by around 25-40%. After 3-4 hours of heavy use the clients load went up to around 180 and everything went downhill from there. After a reboot of the server filesystem corruption occured: EXT3-fs error (device blah): ext3_readdir: directory #3375965 contains a hole at offset 4294967295 Also weird errors on partitions _not_ htree enabled: kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device kernel: 03:01: rw=0, want=1074108103, limit=489951 The above errors only occured on the htree enabled kernel. Switching back to vanilla 2.4.23 resolved the issue (after an e2fsck which reported no errors?) on the htree ext3 device. Theodore, is the patch-ext3-dxdir-2.4.21rc5 the latest and greatest? _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
