On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 07:59:47PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > patches below are an attempt to solve problems filesystems have with > page_mkwrite() when blocksize < pagesize (see the changelog of the second patch > for details). > > Could someone please review them so that they can get merged - especially the > generic VFS/MM part? It fixes observed problems (WARN_ON triggers) for ext4 and > makes ext2/ext3 behave more nicely (mmapped write getting page fault instead > of silently discarding data). Will you be able to send it as two series. a) One that fix the blocksize < page size bug b) making ext2/3 mmaped write give better allocation pattern. Doing that will make sure (a) can go in this merge window. There are other ext4 fixes waiting for (a) to be merged in. > > The series is against Linus's tree from today. The differences against previous > version are one bugfix in ext3 delalloc implementation... Please test and review. > Thanks. -aneesh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
