On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:18:57PM +0100, Andres Freund wrote: > On one of the machines I got several thousand of: > > [10379.575904] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir 416319 > [10379.576002] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir 416319 > [10379.579981] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir 416319 > [10379.580097] ext4: find_group_flex failed, fallback succeeded dir 416319 > (with different directories) Ok, that's good. Good to know the workaround works. Can you send me a dumpe2fs of the filesystem in question? I'm curious what was going on... > No userspace visible behaviour. > > So it seems you were right. It seems sensible to put that patch without > printk in the kernel until the issue is fully solved... Thanks for the report. I'll push the workaround patch to Linus for 2.6.29 to avoid this problem for now. I recently sent to linux-ext4 for comment a patch to revamp the Orlov allocator for flex_bg and to use that instead of find_group_flex(), but no way that's going into 2.6.29 at this point.... - Ted -- 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
