On Mon, Dec 16 '02 at 14:12, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> > is there anywhere a VFS locking patch for kernel version 2.4.20? The
> > latest LVM1-release only includes the one for 2.4.19.
> The 2.4.19 one should work just fine.
As you might know 2.4.20 has a filesystem corruption bug with ext3 fs.
Unforunately the patch changes the semantic of sync_supers by adding a
parameter "wait".
I've not enough knowledge of how the VFS works to dear to update the
patch ... did anyone already do this?
BTW: the ext3 patches are available from
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.4/2.4.20/
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