linux-ext4 - Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000 [ext4_new_meta

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Message-ID: <20090102050854.GH17821@mit.edu>
Date:	Fri, 2 Jan 2009 00:08:54 -0500
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
	00000000 [ext4_new_meta_blocks+0x7c/0xb7]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 04:11:22PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> 
> I have one question regarding the patch. What about blocks allocated for
> directories for the  ext3 format.  With extent format we are not
> setting EXT4_MB_HINT_DATA for non regular files. So i guess we also
> need the below patch .

I've updated the remove-ext4_new_blocks to include your suggested
patch.  I would like to try implementing a new, more intelligent
allocation algorithm later, though.

						- Ted
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