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

Anton Altaparmakov (aia21@cam.ac.uk)
Wed, 18 Apr 2001 14:01:59 +0100


At 13:44 18/04/2001, 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.
>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.

Well, here is some feedback. I have been using this patch for quite a while
now without any problems what so ever. Including "make -j bzImage" on a
dual cpu machine and normal use of a productions system. - Frequent crashes
during ntfs development (and hence frequent reboots + fsck) have not shown
up any problems in ext2 + this patch, either. - It seems to be stable all
right on two different PCs (one SMP, celeron and one UP, pentium 133s).

Best regards,

Anton

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