Re: [PATCH][CFT] ext2 directories in pagecache

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:08:59 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, James Lewis Nance wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 12:33:42PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > Folks, IMO ext2-dir-patch got to the stable stage. Currently
> > it's against 2.4.4-pre2, but it should apply to anything starting with
> > 2.4.2 or so.
>
> Have you had any feedback about this patch? I applied it last night to
> 2.4.3. It seemed to work. When I booted my computer this morning fsck
> complained about problems with the directory on one of my ext2 file systems.

Anything prior to 2.4.4-pre2 has known metadata-corrupting bugs on ext2.
Whether they show up or not depends on the load, phase of moon, etc. but
they are there.

> Since fsck does not run on every boot I dont really have a way of knowing if
> this has anything to do with your patch or not. I'm running the patched
> kernel again right now. Ill shutdown and force an fsck later today to see
> if anything shows up.

Please, upgrade to 2.4.4-pre2 or later. Or, at least, replace bforget()
call in ext2_get_block() with brelse() - that's was the worst one
(and last to be fixed).
Al

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