Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9855] New: ext3 ACL corruption

2008-01-30 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Jan 30, 2008 14:49 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Problem Description: > > On several occasions now I have had e2fsck prune away ACLs on my file > > systems > > during a file system check after rebooting a number of (reasonably) long > > running Samba servers. This morning I decided to manual

Re: [PATCH, RFC] Add new "development flag" to the ext4 filesystem

2008-01-30 Thread supersud501
Theodore Tso wrote: You can manually set the flag using debugfs: # debugfs -w /dev/hdXX debugfs: set_super_value s_flags 4 debugfs: quit (Or, if you're lazy, you can also type the shorthand "ssv flags 4" to debugfs.) With e2fsprogs 1.40.5, if the test_fs flag is set, then blkid w

+ ext3-fix-lock-inversion-in-direct-io.patch added to -mm tree

2008-01-30 Thread akpm
The patch titled ext3: fix lock inversion in direct IO has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ext3-fix-lock-inversion-in-direct-io.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c)

Re: RFC: "file" magic for ext4

2008-01-30 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Jan 30, 2008 11:19 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > This seems to work fine; any comments, either about > the logic, or the text descriptions, or the various > options I've shown/not shown? > > To test, copy your "magic" file somewhere local, > replace the ext2/3 section with the following, > and

Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9849] New: NULL pointer deref in journal_wait_on_commit_record

2008-01-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:17:57 -0800 Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The buufer head pointer passed to journal_wait_on_commit_record() > could be NULL if the previous journal_submit_commit_record() failed > or journal has already aborted. > > We need to check the error returns from journa

[PATCH e2fsprogs] - detect LVM2 PVs in libblkid

2008-01-30 Thread Eric Sandeen
The anaconda folks are now using blkid instead of hand-rolled tests for filesystem type at install time, but they had one more request: Bugzilla Bug 409321: RFE: information on blkdevs "formatted" as PVs https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=409321 The attached patch does the right thing fo

Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9849] New: NULL pointer deref in journal_wait_on_commit_record

2008-01-30 Thread Mingming Cao
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 12:00 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Begin forwarded message: > > Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:24:08 -0800 (PST) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9849] New: NULL pointer deref in > journal_wait_on_commit_record > > > http://bugzi

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9855] New: ext3 ACL corruption

2008-01-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:29:27 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9855 > >Summary: ext3 ACL corruption >Product: File System >Version: 2.5 > KernelVersion: 2.6.23 > Platform: All > OS/Version:

Re: [PATCH, RFC] Add new "development flag" to the ext4 filesystem

2008-01-30 Thread Theodore Tso
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:26:20PM +0100, supersud501 wrote: > > how can i set this "flag" on my filesystem? i've never set any flags before > so i just removed the code from ext4-module to mount my filesystems, but > setting the flag once would make it easier i think :) If you have e2fsprogs 1.

Re: [PATCH, RFC] Add new "development flag" to the ext4 filesystem

2008-01-30 Thread supersud501
Theodore Tso wrote: As discussed on RFC, this flag is simply a generic "this is a crash/burn test filesystem" marker. If it is set, then filesystem code which is "in development" will be allowed to mount the filesystem. Filesystem code which is not considered ready for prime-time will check for

Re: e2fsck ext4 with extents possible?

2008-01-30 Thread supersud501
Andreas Dilger wrote: There is an e2fsprogs RPM that can check ext4 filesystems with extents, available at ftp://ftp.lustre.org/pub/lustre/other/e2fsprogs/ (no warranties, etc). thanks for your answer. maybe i'll go testing this (haven't had anything to do with rpm's yet, i'm on ubuntu).

Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9849] New: NULL pointer deref in journal_wait_on_commit_record

2008-01-30 Thread Andrew Morton
Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:24:08 -0800 (PST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9849] New: NULL pointer deref in journal_wait_on_commit_record http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9849 Summary: NULL pointer deref i

Re: e2fsck ext4 with extents possible?

2008-01-30 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Jan 30, 2008 11:54 +0100, supersud501 wrote: > i'm testing the ext4-filesystem for months now (no data loss experienced ), > but i noticed e2fsck not being able to check a ext4-filesystem with extents > ("e2fsck: Filesystem has unsupported feature(s)"). > > i just pulled linus' kernel tree (w

Re: e2fsck ext4 with extents possible?

2008-01-30 Thread Eric Sandeen
supersud501 wrote: > hello, > > i'm testing the ext4-filesystem for months now (no data loss experienced > ), but i noticed e2fsck not being able to check a ext4-filesystem with > extents ("e2fsck: Filesystem has unsupported feature(s)"). > > i just pulled linus' kernel tree (with the newly add

RFC: "file" magic for ext4

2008-01-30 Thread Eric Sandeen
This seems to work fine; any comments, either about the logic, or the text descriptions, or the various options I've shown/not shown? To test, copy your "magic" file somewhere local, replace the ext2/3 section with the following, and do something like: # file -C -m magic; file -m ./magic -s /dev

e2fsck ext4 with extents possible?

2008-01-30 Thread supersud501
hello, i'm testing the ext4-filesystem for months now (no data loss experienced ), but i noticed e2fsck not being able to check a ext4-filesystem with extents ("e2fsck: Filesystem has unsupported feature(s)"). i just pulled linus' kernel tree (with the newly added patches to ext4) and e2fspr

[PATCH RESEND] jbd: Remove useless loop in journal_write_commit_record()

2008-01-30 Thread Jan Kara
Hi, resending the patch just in case you've missed it. Honza -- Jan Kara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SUSE Labs, CR --- Commit block was intended to have several copies of the header. But due to a bug it never had them and actua

Re: [GIT PULL] ext4 update

2008-01-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Theodore Tso wrote: > > That's because you are doing a diff stat of changes that haven't been > checked in yet. I was doing a "git log -p origin.. | diffstat -p1", > and in that incantation you definitely do need the -p1 to diffstat. You should *always* use "-p1" to diffst

Re: [GIT PULL] ext4 update

2008-01-30 Thread Paul Collins
Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:54:03PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >> I am seeing normal behavior: >> >> 22:52 sovereign:~/linux > git diff HEAD | diffstat > > That's because you are doing a diff stat of changes that haven't been > checked in yet. I was