Eric Sandeen wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: >> Ted is dir_index maintainer ;) ... >> [1.] One line summary of the problem: >> ext3 dir_index causes an error > > I'm looking at this now, FWIW... pretty easy to reproduce on ppc64, > though I've not yet hit it on x86. The issue here is that do_split() splits a leaf node at the entry with the median hash value, after sorting by hash... but it pays no attention to the resulting size of the records in the old & new blocks. If you're unlucky, and your split is lopsided size-wise, you may not have space in the block chosen for the new entry. This is not checked, however, and things go bad quickly. Talked with Andreas a little about this, looking into the best way to fix it up. -Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
