On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 02:11:49PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > Hello, > > attached is a jumbo patch that reverses locking order of transaction > start and page lock in ext3 and rewrites handling of ordered data mode in > JBD and ext3. Note that the patch will break compilation of ext4 and OCFS2. > The patch survives LTP run on my test machine so it shouldn't eat your data > immediately but bugs are of course possible... > I'm very interested in any results (both positive and negative) you could > get with it :). Thanks for testing it. > > Honza > > PS: CCing also linux-ext4 list in case there are some other interested > testers. Next on my todo list is to port this for ext4... > -- > Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> > SUSE Labs, CR Just glancing over it everything looks to be ok, but I still can't compile with ext3/jbd being modules :). I had to EXPORT_SYMBOL do_writepages, __filemap_fdatawrite_range and all the jbd things you added to make it build properly. I will do some testing with it while I'm in class. Josef -- 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
