linux-ext4 - Re: Gentoo with ext4-patch-queue snapshots

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Date:	Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:19:54 -0700
From:	Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>
To:	Gary Hawco <ghawco@....net>
Cc:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Gentoo with ext4-patch-queue snapshots


On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 17:50 +0000, Gary Hawco wrote:
> Mingming,
> 
> Can you post that patch somewhere for download? I access my email using
> Windows Vista, not in linux, so it would be very laborious to hand copy
> this patch and recreate it in linux.
> 
Patch attached. 

> Updated the 2.6.26-rc8 kernel with the latest snapshot from today at
> 1833hrs GMT. All hell broke loose in Gentoo, The new kernel wouldn't allow
> the system to remount read/write on boot.  But it worked fine in Slackware.
> Gentoo with the experimental openrc-0.2.5 and baselayout2 apparently does
> not like ext4.
> 

The only commit made yesterday was add the 
Add ext4-fix-online-resize-with-mballoc.patch

It does not seem to impact the boot.

Was the filesystem corrupted before you reboot with new kernel? If so
the next reboot will probably refuse to remount it as it need fsck.


> And for clarification, the patch you sent me is not yet in the queue?
> 
Just pushed into the queue today. Please check.

> So to summarize my recent (as of the last seven days of snapshots) saga
> with ext4-queue-patch in Gentoo
> 
> Through 062508/0019hrs no problems (although I do not believe delalloc was
> enabled)
> From 062608/0042 - 062708/2353hrs had segfaulting when copying and tarring
> small files. No other detectable issues.
> From 063008/1704 - 063008/2219hrs --no segfaulting but data corruption in
> one initiation file causing network interfaces to have to be manually
> activated. No data corruption if delalloc disabled
> latest snapshot 070108/1833hrs --system unable to be remounted read/write
> after fsck check.  Manually booted to livecd with e2fsprogs-1.41WIP
> (17-June-2008). Efsck shows no filesystem problems.
> Rolling back to 063008/2219 snapshot fixes boot problems. No segfaulting.
> No data corruption IF delalloc disabled.
> 
> Thanks,
> Gary
> 

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