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SubjectRe: EXT4 ENOSPC Bug
Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 03:18:45AM +0100, Andres Freund wrote:
>> On 02/18/2009 10:29 PM, Theodore Tso wrote:
>>> Ok, that's good. Good to know the workaround works.
>>> Can you send me a dumpe2fs of the filesystem in question? I'm curious
>>> what was going on...
>> Will do as soon as I am at the same place as the machine. I guess thats
>> only interesting to you privately (size and so on)?
>>
>>> Thanks for the report. I'll push the workaround patch to Linus for
>>> 2.6.29 to avoid this problem for now. I recently sent to linux-ext4
>>> for comment a patch to revamp the Orlov allocator for flex_bg and to
>>> use that instead of find_group_flex(), but no way that's going into
>>> 2.6.29 at this point....
>> Would it be helpfull if I test that patch?
>>
>
> Sure, I'll take all of the testing I can get. :-)
>
> The patch is in the ext4 patch queue, and I sent them to the ext4
> patch queue. The patch is also in patch work:
>
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/23343/
>
> The patch which I sent you earlier (available below) is a prequisite:
>
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/23228/

Ted, I hope the printk will be removed or at least ratelimited before it
gets upstream?

Thanks,
-Eric


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