Re: [patch 130/198] ext2 corruption - regression between 2.6.9 and 2.6.10

2005-04-18 Thread Mingming Cao
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 12:22 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > The ext2 handle discard preallocation differently at that time, it discard > > the > > preallocation at each iput(), not in input_final(), so we think it's > > unnecessary to thrash it so fre

Re: [patch 130/198] ext2 corruption - regression between 2.6.9 and 2.6.10

2005-04-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The ext2 handle discard preallocation differently at that time, it discard the > preallocation at each iput(), not in input_final(), so we think it's > unnecessary to thrash it so frequently, and the right thing to do, as we did > for ext3 reservation, dis

[patch 130/198] ext2 corruption - regression between 2.6.9 and 2.6.10

2005-04-12 Thread akpm
From: Bernard Blackham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Whilst trying to stress test a Promise SX8 card, we stumbled across some nasty filesystem corruption in ext2. Our tests involved creating an ext2 partition, mounting, running several concurrent fsx's over it, umounting, and fsck'ing, all scripted[1]. The

ext2 corruption - regression between 2.6.9 and 2.6.10

2005-03-30 Thread Bernard Blackham
Whilst trying to stress test a Promise SX8 card, we stumbled across some nasty filesystem corruption in ext2. Our tests involved creating an ext2 partition, mounting, running several concurrent fsx's over it, umounting, and fsck'ing, all scripted[1]. The fsck would always return with errors. This