Ext3-0.9.18 available

Ext3-0.9.18 available

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

ext3-0.9.18 is now available for 2.4.19-pre8.  Some of the fixes in
this release are already in the 2.4.19-pre8, but there are some
important new fixes in the patch and users are encouraged to upgrade.
This release fixes all known outstanding bug reports.

The full patch against linux-2.4.19-pre8, and a tarball of the
individual fixes in this patch set, is now propagating to

	ftp://ftp.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/sct/ext3/v2.4/

The full list of changes is included below.

Cheers,
 Stephen

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ChangeLog:

* Speed up MS_SYNC writes
* Set up kjournald to be parented under init properly
* config: ext3 is no longer experimental
* fix i_blocks getting inconsistent after disk full
* speed up fsyncs in non-journaled data modes a little
* don't consider ENOSPC a fatal error when allocating an inode
* fix LVM snapshot deadlock
* fix "dump corrupts filesystems" core VFS bug
* fix over-zealous ext3 complaint about locked buffers
* fix very rare buffer leak
* fix O_SYNC
* fix tiny race where a buffer could be written to disk too soon

Re: Ext3-0.9.18 available

[Tomas Szepe]

> ext3-0.9.18 is now available for 2.4.19-pre8.  Some of the fixes in
> this release are already in the 2.4.19-pre8, but there are some
> important new fixes in the patch and users are encouraged to upgrade.
> This release fixes all known outstanding bug reports.

Is there at least a remote possibility of the fixes getting ported
to be included in the linux-2.2 ext3 patch (the latest being 0.0.7a?)?

Thanks,
T.

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: Ext3-0.9.18 available

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 02:17:47PM +0200, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> > ext3-0.9.18 is now available for 2.4.19-pre8.  Some of the fixes in
> > this release are already in the 2.4.19-pre8, but there are some
> > important new fixes in the patch and users are encouraged to upgrade.
> > This release fixes all known outstanding bug reports.
> 
> Is there at least a remote possibility of the fixes getting ported
> to be included in the linux-2.2 ext3 patch (the latest being 0.0.7a?)?

No, there's no need.  The changes come in several groups:

Performance tweaks:
* Speed up MS_SYNC writes
* speed up fsyncs in non-journaled data modes a little

Config/cosmetic tweaks:
* Set up kjournald to be parented under init properly
* config: ext3 is no longer experimental

Fix bugs introduced at various stages during the 2.4 port:
* don't consider ENOSPC a fatal error when allocating an inode
* fix over-zealous ext3 complaint about locked buffers
* fix O_SYNC
* fix tiny race where a buffer could be written to disk too soon

Fix bugs arising from changes made elsewhere during 2.4:
* fix i_blocks getting inconsistent after disk full
* fix "dump corrupts filesystems" core VFS bug
* fix very rare buffer leak

Fix a bug in the LVM interaction (code isn't present in 2.2):
* fix LVM snapshot deadlock

None of the bug-fixes apply to the 2.2 version of the code.

Cheers,
 Stephen

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: Ext3-0.9.18 available

[Mike Fedyk]

On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 01:26:25PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> None of the bug-fixes apply to the 2.2 version of the code.

Great!

I seem to remember someone mentioning that there are some updates to
ext3-0.0.7a in some vendor kernel.

Is there any chance that there will be a new patch made available for 2.2?

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: Ext3-0.9.18 available

[Andreas Dilger]

On May 17, 2002  17:35 -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> I seem to remember someone mentioning that there are some updates to
> ext3-0.0.7a in some vendor kernel.

Well, there are LFS patches that I and others wrote for ext3, but you
also need the core LFS patches for it to work, I believe.

Cheers, Andreas
--
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