On Tue 08-04-08 11:47:04, Josef Bacik wrote: > 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. Strange, I've already been fixing these. Aww, I thought diff contained all the changes and obviously the branch in git contained some further fixes :(. Hopefully I've at least committed changes and will be able to find fixes among git objects... Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- 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
