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Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:12:20 -0700 From: Nathan Grennan <jack@...nusx-1.org> To: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> CC: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Ordered mode rewrite patch Jan Kara wrote: > Hello, > > attached is a jumbo patch that reverses locking order of transaction > start and page lock in ext3 and rewrites handling of ordered data mode in > JBD and ext3. Note that the patch will break compilation of ext4 and OCFS2. > The patch survives LTP run on my test machine so it shouldn't eat your data > immediately but bugs are of course possible... > I'm very interested in any results (both positive and negative) you could > get with it :). Thanks for testing it. > > Honza > > PS: CCing also linux-ext4 list in case there are some other interested > testers. Next on my todo list is to port this for ext4... > I am trying to apply the patch to Fedora 8's kernel-2.6.24.4-64, and it fails on all the files. + '[' '!' -f /home/builder/rpmbuild/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.24.4/ext3-jbd-2.6.25-ordered_mode.patch ']' + case "$patch" in + patch -p1 -F1 -s 1 out of 26 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file fs/ext3/inode.c.rej 1 out of 11 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file fs/jbd/commit.c.rej 1 out of 12 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file fs/jbd/transaction.c.rej 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file include/linux/writeback.h.rej -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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