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...2.4.21 and 2.4.22, as they include the patch reported in the above message. But we're still getting the bug. We can reproduce it using postmark inside versionfs, mounted on top of ext3, in 2.4.22: kernel: Assertion failure in do_get_write_access() at transaction.c:720: "handle->h_buffer_credits > 0" Now, it's quite possible that we're not doing something right in versionfs which messes ext3 up. We're unable to tickle this assertion directly via ext3. However, given that our benchmarks run fine on ext2 and that at least one reported buffer_credits problem was a true...

A patch that implements acls on ext3 for kernel 2.2.x is available at http://moldybread.net/patch/kernel-2.2/ It looks to be stable. Beat it, break it.