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hi. i'm using 2.2.18 with ext3-0.0.5e on a dual p3-550 with 1.5 gigs of ram. the system is redhat 6.2-based but with lots of modifications and a clean kernel build. i've been using 2.2.18 and 2.2.17 with ext3 patches on other machines with much success and no problems, up until last night, when the machine mentioned above kernel panicked on me. unfortunately i don't have much of

This patch fixes the data loss which can occur when unmounting a data=journal ext3 filesystem. The core problem is that the VFS doesn't tell the filesystem enough about what is happening. ext3 _needs_ to know the difference between regular memory-cleansing writeback and sync-for-data-integrity purposes. (These two operations are really quite distinct, and the kernel has got it wrong for

My hard drive on a Dell Latitude keeps being accessed every 5 seconds for a couple tenths of a second. Is there a way yo shut this off. I suspect it might be related to journaling? Thanks in advance. -- David I. Sommers, Ph.D. Kensington, MD

What is really puzzling me is that the ataraid device (/dev/ataraid/d0p1 mounted as /bigdisk) 2x 123GB IBM Deskstar's is formated as ext2...top and ps etc... show a fight between kjournald and kupdated and all searches for kjournald or kupdated fights suggest ext3 issues... :-) It's a RedHat 7.2, 2.4.7-10 custom kernal (I added in the Promise FastTrak support and HIGH mem support to

Tom Syroid was kind enough to answer my first question. I had some really weird errors and he told me to uninstall the samba that I had compiled on my own and reinstall the samba.tgz that came with slackware 7.1 which is what I am running. I did so, and the weird errors no longer occur. Instead when I try: root@vader82:/# smbclient -L localhost added interface ip=192.168.0.1

(Sent to linux-raid, linux-kernel and ext3-users since I'm not sure what type of issue this is) I've got a test system here running Redhat 7.1 + stock 2.4.9 with these patches: http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/2.4.9/linux-2.4.9-NFS_ALL.dif http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/ext3-2.4-0.9.6-249.gz http://domsch.com/linux/aacraid/linux-2.4.9-aacraid-20010816.patch All three patches applied

Ive had two of them in the last two weeks.. The most recent kernel output is kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000009c kernel: printing eip: kernel: c88132b4 kernel: *pde = 00000000 kernel: Oops: 0000 kernel: ppp_async ppp_generic slhc 3c509 8139too mii ipt_state ipt_LOG ipt_REJECT ipt_ kernel: CPU: 0 kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c88132b4>] Not

Hi, Is it possible to use a separate journal device (one on a separate drive or a partition) shared among more than 1 Ext3 file systems ? I appreciate any inputs. thanks, Vijayan

Hi, Is there any way that one can change the location of the journal file when the file system is created ? For eg., instead of using inode# 7 and the blocks at the beginning of the file system, I'd like to use an inode at a different cylinder group and some other set of blocks. Even if I'm allowed only to use one of the reserved inodes, is it possible to put the journal file somewhere in

Hi, I have a question on fsync() and ext3's journaling modes. Assume that I call fsync(fd) on a file. If that file is in 'data=journal' mode, would the fsync() return once the data gets safely into the journal ? On the other hand, if that file is in 'data=writeback' mode, would the fsync() return only when the data gets safely into its actual location ? Any help is

Hi, I have a doubt on how the transaction semantics work in ext3. When I copy a file, does the entire copy is treated as one transaction so that finally I have either the full file or no file. Or will it be split into multiple transactions which can result in copying partial files. thanks, Vijayan

Hi, I have a doubt in the ordering of writes in ext3. Any help is appreciated. Ext3 enforces certain ordering in writes to ensure data integrity. For example, the journal writes are issued first and only after their successful completion the actual writes are issued. Sometimes we need to maintain ordering across transactions also. This is needed because if the actual writes of one transaction

Hi, This morning I had some failed calls. On the console (and in the log) I saw the error "Unable to allocate channel structure". Before I restarted the process, I checked it's memory usage in ps and glanced at my free memory in top. Asterisk was using a normal ammount of memory, about 40M. I don't think this was a system limit. This was running Asterisk v1.0.2. Below is

Hello everybody! As I wrote in my mail the previous week ("BUG: 2.4.19pre1 & journal_thread & open filehandles") I followed the problem a little bit further. Here's my patch; I beg the ext3-maintainers (Stephen, Andreas, Andrew) to have a look at it and submit it to Marcelo and Linux for inclusion. (2.4 is for now for me more important than 2.5). Patch ----- On every

Hi, I have a large journal of 400MB (the max for 4k blocks), and I'd like to be able to check how much of it is being used. If it's not being used that much, I'd like to know if the writes *from* the journal to the rest of the disk could be delayed until a certain percentage of the journal has been used. It would be nice to be able to get more contiguous writes to the journal for

Hello all, Saturday night, after a couple of shots of bourbon, I realized that I had an old PC sitting in the garage that I could use as an Asterisk gateway if I just blew the dust off it and reloaded it with a modern Linux distribution. In my characteristically impulsive manner, I grabbed it and started cleaning it up so that I could put it in my office without my wife having a fit. The

Hi, I am a new ext3 user and I am having some problems. I seem to have introduced a memory leak after adding ext3 support to the kernel. I noticed when running top or viewing /proc/meminfo my free memory pool seems to be decreasing while my buffers are increasing (around the same rate). I am currently using a root partition and a /var partition. I have listed the ext3 boot messages below.

https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40 laforge@netfilter.org changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED ------- Additional Comments From laforge@netfilter.org 2003-02-03 16:49 ------- We haven't seen this

I am getting an odd situation when backing up a number of ext3 filesystems and was wondering if it could be caused by journalling. Over the space of a minute the load average will jump from 2 to over 40 and the system will be unresponsive for anywhere from 8 to 25 minutes. I am going to be trying a number of things, but was wondering if anyone could see the reason for the high load given the

Do you know what can cause the smbd process to steal out the cpu usage (99%) and keep running like that for days? I have a Samba PDC 3.0.1pre3 running on top of RH9 2.4.20 kernel. Below is the current top report. Strangely, the PDC still responds in reasonable good response times to heavy network duty.traced the log.%machine name% and didn't find anything . I haven't tried to restart smb