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...=========================================== --- fs/jfs/checkpoint.c.orig Thu Mar 1 16:35:40 2001 +++ fs/jfs/checkpoint.c Thu Mar 29 17:08:51 2001 @@ -106,8 +106,15 @@ lock_journal(journal); return 1; } - - if (!buffer_dirty(bh) && !buffer_jdirty(bh) && + + if (bh->b_dev == B_FREE) { + if (bh->b_cp_transaction) { + unlock_journal(journal); + journal_remove_checkpoint(bh); + lock_journal(journal); + return 1; + } + } else if (!buffer_dirty(bh) && !buffer_jdirty(bh) && bh->b_list != BUF_CLEAN) { unlock_journal(journal...

Well.... you might remember that I have had problems will my NFS fileserver that run ext3 with data=journal. The filesystem corruption now seems too be solved with the patch (plus amendment) that I posted, so I am happy about that... but there is more. I have known for a while that ext3 doesn't behave very well when the journal fills up. If it finds that the journal is full, and the

Hi, ext3-0.0.6a has been uploaded to ftp.uk.linux.org:/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/ext3-0.0.6a.tar.gz and ftp.*.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/sct/ext3/ext3-0.0.6a.tar.gz This version changes the way dirty buffers are marked to protect against device drivers which might block in the ll_rw_block() function. (Loop and lvm are examples.) It should also fix a rare but persistent report of

...periods, depending on disk utilization patterns. Cheers, Marko -------------- next part -------------- --- /usr/src/sys.org/dev/ata/ata-disk.c Thu Jan 30 08:19:59 2003 +++ dev/ata/ata-disk.c Sat Apr 12 00:31:26 2003 @@ -294,6 +294,7 @@ adstrategy(struct buf *bp) struct ad_softc *adp = bp->b_dev->si_drv1; int s; + stratcalls++; if (adp->device->flags & ATA_D_DETACHING) { bp->b_error = ENXIO; bp->b_flags |= B_ERROR; --- /usr/src/sys.org/kern/vfs_subr.c Sun Oct 13 18:19:12 2002 +++ kern/vfs_subr.c Sat Apr 12 01:56:16 2003 @@ -116,6 +116,10 @@ SYSCTL_INT(...