On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 03:18:45AM +0100, Andres Freund wrote: > On 02/18/2009 10:29 PM, Theodore Tso wrote: >> 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... > Will do as soon as I am at the same place as the machine. I guess thats > only interesting to you privately (size and so on)? > >> 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.... > Would it be helpfull if I test that patch? > Sure, I'll take all of the testing I can get. :-) The patch is in the ext4 patch queue, and I sent them to the ext4 patch queue. The patch is also in patch work: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/23343/ The patch which I sent you earlier (available below) is a prequisite: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/23228/ - 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
