Hello!
New reiserfs support patch for linux kernel version 2.2.20 is released.
Several bugs were fixed and several bugfixes were backported from 2.4 kernel
series.
New patch version number is 3.5.35, you can download it at:
ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfs-for-2.2/linux-2.2.20-reiserfs-3.5.35.diff.bz2
incremental patch over version 3.5.34 is available at:
ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfs-for-2.2/reiserfs-3.5.35-upgrade-patch.bz2
Here are the releasenotes for new patch:
- Included forgotten patch that made system crash if we do umount while sync.
- Defeated a problem where newly created symlinks and dirs had zero size in
blocks.
- Defeated a problem where file tail erroneously tried to be read if attempt to
read past the actual file contents was made.
- Empty files with non zero blocks usage issue was fixed.
- Patch by Chris Mason to avoid duplicate replay of last flushed transaction.
(2.4 backport)
- Patch to break infinite loop in journal_read() in a case when
journal log area is completely filled with transactions. (2.4 backport)
- Symlink-body length check was made against incorrect value, allowing for too
long nodes to be inserted into tree. This might lead to obscure warnings
in some cases. (2.4 backport)
- Print nicer warning message is unfinished rebuild-tree operation was
detected. (2.4 backport)
- file's mtime was not updated on truncate, sometimes. (2.4 backport)
- directory's atime were not updated on readdir (2.4 backport)
- Fixed journal replaying isses if there was junk in the journal.
As additional bonus, journal replay is now faster. (2.4 backport)
- Do not run the commit thread 3 times per second, this is pure waste of CPU
time. (2.4 backport)
Bye,
Oleg
