On Tue 08-04-08 13:12:20, Nathan Grennan wrote: > 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... >> > I am trying to apply the patch to Fedora 8's kernel-2.6.24.4-64, and it > fails on all the files. > > + '[' '!' -f > /home/builder/rpmbuild/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.24.4/ext3-jbd-2.6.25-ordered_mode.patch > ']' > + case "$patch" in > + patch -p1 -F1 -s > 1 out of 26 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file fs/ext3/inode.c.rej > 1 out of 11 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file fs/jbd/commit.c.rej > 1 out of 12 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file fs/jbd/transaction.c.rej > 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file > include/linux/writeback.h.rej Hmm, strange so many chunks failed but anyway, the patch is against recent Linus's git - I think 2.6.25-rc7 will do just fine. 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
