Re: [RFC] ext3 freeze feature

2008-02-13 Thread Takashi Sato
Hi, P.S. Oh yeah, it should be noted that freezing at the filesystem layer does *not* guarantee that changes to the block device aren't happening via mmap()'ed files. The LVM needs to freeze writes the block device level if it wants to guarantee a completely stable snapshot image. So the

Re: [PATCH] ext4: modify block allocation algorithm for the last group

2008-02-13 Thread Mingming Cao
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 17:26 +0100, Valerie Clement wrote: Modify the block allocation algorithm for the last group From: Valerie Clement [EMAIL PROTECTED] When a directory inode is allocated in the last group and the last group contains less than s_blocks_per_group blocks, the initial

[PATCH] ext4: Fix kernel BUG at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:910!

2008-02-13 Thread Valerie Clement
Fix kernel BUG at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:910! From: Valerie Clement [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the flex_bg feature enabled, a large file creation oopses the kernel. The BUG_ON is: BUG_ON(len = EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb)); As the allocation of the bitmaps and the inode table can be done outside

Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix kernel BUG at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:910!

2008-02-13 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Feb 13, 2008 18:19 +0100, Valerie Clement wrote: From: Valerie Clement [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the flex_bg feature enabled, a large file creation oopses the kernel. The BUG_ON is: BUG_ON(len = EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb)); As the allocation of the bitmaps and the inode table can be

+ ext4-le_add_cpu-conversion.patch added to -mm tree

2008-02-13 Thread akpm
The patch titled ext4: le*_add_cpu conversion has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ext4-le_add_cpu-conversion.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) Ideally: find the

+ jbd-sparse-warnings-in-revokec-journalc.patch added to -mm tree

2008-02-13 Thread akpm
The patch titled jbd: sparse warnings in revoke.c, journal.c has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is jbd-sparse-warnings-in-revokec-journalc.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

[PATCH] e2fsprogs: New bitmap and inode table allocation for FLEX_BG v2

2008-02-13 Thread Jose R. Santos
New bitmap and inode table allocation for FLEX_BG From: Jose R. Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change the way we allocate bitmaps and inode tables if the FLEX_BG feature is used at mke2fs time. It places calculates a new offset for bitmaps and inode table base on the number of groups that the user