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

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Message-ID: <45F57034.2020402@bull.net>
Date:	Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:22:28 +0100
From:	Valerie Clement <valerie.clement@...l.net>
To:	cmm@...ibm.com
Cc:	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

Mingming Cao wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 11:45 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 18:09:55 +0100 Andre Noll <maan@...temlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 20:39, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:37:22 +0100 Andre Noll <maan@...temlinux.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>> BTW: Are ext3 filesystem sizes greater than 8T now officially
>>> supported?
>> I think so, but I don't know how much 16TB testing developers and
>> distros are doing - perhaps the linux-ext4 denizens can tell us?
>> -
> 
> 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.
> 
> Mingming

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?

    Valérie
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