linux-ext4 - Re: qla2xxx BUG: workqueue leaked lock or atomic

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Date:	Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:01:34 -0400
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com>
To:	Valerie Clement <valerie.clement@...l.net>
Cc:	cmm@...ibm.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andre Noll <maan@...temlinux.org>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: qla2xxx BUG: workqueue leaked lock or atomic

On Mar 12, 2007  16:22 +0100, Valerie Clement wrote:
> Mingming Cao wrote:
> >IBM has done some testing (dbench, fsstress, fsx, tiobench, iozone etc)
> >on 10TB ext3, I think RedHat and BULL have done similar test on >8TB
> >ext3 too.
> 
> Is there not a problem of backward-compatibility with old kernels?
> Doesn't we need to handle a new INCOMPAT flag in e2fsprogs and kernel
> before allowing ext3 filesystems greater than 8T?

No, it really depends on the kernel.  There were some bugs that caused
problems with > 8TB because of signed 32-bit int problems, so it isn't
really recommended to use > 8TB unless you know this is fixed in your
kernel (and any older kernel you might have to downgrade to).

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.

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