On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 06:12:35PM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 09:39:55AM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > [...] > > > [PATCH 1/2] ext4: let mpage_submit_io works well when blocksize < pagesize > > > [PATCH 2/2] ext4: let ext4_discard_partial_buffers handle pages without > > > > > > [PATCH 1/2] ext4: remove a wrong BUG_ON in ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized > > > [PATCH 2/2] ext4: let ext4_bio_write_page handle EOF correctly > [...] > > Only once, before the fixes, did I ever see an unexplained EINVAL > > (from cp), like Andy reports: I'm very hopeful his case is fixed too. > > Yes I have reverted my fix and applied all four of these patches (above). > I have just completed a 100 iteration run of my test case without failure. > This would typically fail in the first iteration 90% of the time and > never survived more than two iterations. > > I am comfortable saying they resolve my issue. Are we likely to see these fixes in a 3.2-rcN or will they be going to stable? -apw -- 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