From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262629AbTDQVqz (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2003 17:46:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262633AbTDQVqz (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2003 17:46:55 -0400 Received: from [12.47.58.203] ([12.47.58.203]:26851 "EHLO pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262629AbTDQVqy (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2003 17:46:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:57:35 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Marc-Christian Petersen Cc: shemminger@osdl.org, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] Fix orlov allocator boundary case Message-Id: <20030417145735.2a9eb17c.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <200304172327.09876.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> References: <20030417111303.706d7246.shemminger@osdl.org> <20030417122142.39d27f73.akpm@digeo.com> <200304172327.09876.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Apr 2003 21:58:45.0429 (UTC) FILETIME=[84630E50:01C3052C] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Marc-Christian Petersen wrote: > > On Thursday 17 April 2003 21:21, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > > OK, here be the fix. > > I'm a bit peeved that this wasn't discovered until it hit Linus's tree. > > Weren't these patches in -mjb as well? > I guess this is also true for the ext3 code? Only for the modified ext3 in the -mm tree. > I am using the orlov stuff for 2.4.21* maintained by Theodore and Steven. That kernel will not exhibit the problem - it is caused by the "fast version" of the free inodes count being off by a few blocks, and the filesystem having only one block group.