On Wed, May 01, 08:36, Darrick J. Wong wrote > > I guess the important question is how much impact this issue > > has on production systems (i.e., on CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG=n kernels, > > where the assert statement is not compiled in). If the unpatched > > xfs_inobt_max_size() is very unlikely to cause problems on such > > systems, we might as well live with it. > > ...but it's unlikely to cause problems since the allocator will probably > pass over that runt AG so long as the others have more space and it will > mostly stay empty. That makes me feel better, as we have many such systems. Thanks for the assessment of risks. > (He says knocking on wood knowing that he's now tempted fate :P) One reason more to apply the patch :) Andre -- Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology Max-Planck-Ring 5, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. Phone: (+49) 7071 601 829 http://people.tuebingen.mpg.de/maan/
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