On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:25:39 -0500 "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I've updated the ext4 backport branches on the ext4 git tree: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git > > The for-stable branch is branched off of 2.6.28.2, and has a candidate > set of patches to be included in the next stable release. The > for-stable-2.6.27 branch is branched off of 2.6.27.13. > > I'm more confident with the 2.6.28 stable candidate than the 2.6.27 > stable candidates at the moment, but given that we just missed the > 2.6.27.14 and 2.6.28.3 release cycles, that should give us plenty of > time to test the patches. > .27 has a bug and one patch got merged in .27.14... > > mainline 2.6.28 2.6.27 > commit-description > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > c894058d ----- 71ae3e25 > ext4: Use an rbtree for tracking blocks freed during transaction. > The chunk that creates the ext4_free_block_extents cache is misapplied: it ended up at the end of ext4_mb_use_preallocated() instead of init_ext4_mballoc(). The null cache pointer then causes oopses when trying to delete files. > a21102b5 1b1872b 0f30c439 > ext3: Add sanity check to make_indexed_dir > This went into 2.6.27.14. -- 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
