linux-ext4 - Re: [REGRESSION] allocated N with only M reserved metadata blocks

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Date:	Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:22:39 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Whitney <enwlinux@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] allocated N with only M reserved metadata blocks

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 05:02:01PM -0400, Eric Whitney wrote:
> 
> FWIW, this might not be a regression.  I believe I've got this warning in my
> testing logs from both 3.8 and 3.8-rc7 (commit 01a523eb51 in 3.9-rc1 affects
> message format and line numbering) on both x86 and ARM.  I didn't run xfstest
> 127 prior to 3.8-rc7, so I don't know how far back the warning may have
> occurred for that particular test.
> 
> The 3.8-rc7 results are a little different with respect to number of warnings
> and test cases, so I'm thinking this one isn't completely deterministic,
> testing-wise.  Multiple test runs may be required to see it.

Thanks for the extra data; this saved be a whole bunch of time, since
I probably would have started doing a series git bisects tonight.   :-)

  	   	      	      	      - Ted

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