similar to: Ext3 code for 2.2 kernels

I have a question regarding a thread in June called "Distinct transactions", which I have included below. It seems to me that the solution is not atomic for daemons opening the file as there is a moment where the filename is not in the directory (i.e. unlink then link). In summary, poster Charlie Woloszynski wanted to update a configuration file in a safe manner (i.e. as a

Hi! A few weeks ago we upgraded 9 large webservers from ext2 to ext3. Since then we've seen very strange behavior on several of the machines. Permissions of files are repeatedly changed at random occasions. Several times, ownership of files have been totally mangled. Several users have logged in to discover that all their files suddenly are owned by another user! At two of these occasions

Hi all, ext3-0.0.6b is now available at the usual places: ftp.*.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/sct/ext3/ and ftp.uk.linux.org:/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/ The only significant change in this release is the fix to the orphan list recovery, and that fix also affects e2fsprogs, so please pick up the new e2fsprogs from the same directory when you grab the ext3 release. I've put tarballs,

Hi, i am seeing an oops (every couple of days) on a UP PII system with SCSI disks, Kernel 2.2.19 and ext3 0.0.6b. All oops output passed the klogd thus i cant anymore pipe it through ksymoops - I ensured klogd got the correct System.map so the result should be reliable. Apr 25 17:03:10 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 8efd1fc8 current->tss.cr3 = 0981e000, %%cr3 =

[ Tried to check the archives but the website seems to be down or something ] On one of our installations, I am seeing messages such as: EXT3-fs warning (device ide0(3,9))): ext3_free_inode: bit already clearned for inode 14 Anybody know exactly what they mean? These would be on a 0.0.6a system. b.

Hi all, I've pushed my current set of ext3 diffs (against Marcelo's current tree) to http://people.redhat.com/sct/patches/ext3-2.4/dev-20030314/ This includes: 00-merged/ diffs recently merged into 2.4 10-core-fixes-other/ misc fixes/tweaks from akpm, adilger 11-core-fixes-sct/ misc fixes/tweaks from sct 20-tytso-updates/ Ted's recent updates 21-updates-sct/ recent sct diffs

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

In the Red Hat Linux spec file for the 2.2.19 kernel, there is a note not to enable ext3 and LFS at the same time. I'm wondering whether this is an old note, and that it is safe to use ext3 0.0.7a on a system with LFS enabled, or if there are still issues with it. I'm aware that 0.0.7a is a really old version, and 2.2 isn't the most modern kernel, but it is what I have to work with.

After a rather severe hard boot, my machine refuses to mount homes, which are on an ext3 partition. Here is the error i get while mounting... # mount /dev/sdc1 EXT3-fs: invalid journal inode EXT3-fs: get root inode failed mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1, or too many mounted filesystems However I am able to mount it as ext2 and continue. I am using ext3-0.0.6b on

Has anyone tried LFS (ie >2G files support) and Ext3 together? Are there good reasons why this should/should not work? I see the RH enterprise kernel patch set specifically does not attempt both lfs and ext3, but the lfs patches themselves touch some reasonably localised parts of ext2, so I would hope (without having dived in there to test), that the ext3 changes would mirror that

Hello All, I have a production server that is running 2.2.20. This server *has* to be up 24X7 - what I'm wondering is: 1) Is ext3 on 2.2.20 rock stable? Or, would you recommend that I just stay with ext2? 2) I have looked far and wide for a the ext3 patch for 2.2.20 - where can I find it? 3) Were are the e2fsprogs that are appropriate to run with the 2.2.X kernel series? Thanks,

Just looking through the 2.4.20pre changelogs, I see there's been a bunch of Ext3 patches since 2.4.19. I'm keen to take advantage of any bug fixes and performance improvements, but am nervous about using 2.4.20 until it's completed its release cycle. Is there any way to get a patch just containing the Ext3 changes? Are there any changes since 2.4.20 that are very important, either

I desperately need the ability to quickly recover from a power loss so I am finally going to break down and spend some time with ext3. I dl'ed the ext3-0.0.6b.tar.gz and unzipped it in /usr/src. Then I installed kernel-source-2.2.19-6.2.1.i386.rpm from redhat I then treid to apply the patches: cat ../ext3-0.0.6b/linux-2.2.19pre14.kdb.diff | patch -sp1 cat

Hi, ext3-0.0.5d.tar.gz is now up on ftp.uk.linux.org:/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/ and ftp.*.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/sct/ext3/ as patches against 2.2.18. This only contains the kernel bits: we're in the process of syncing up on some e2fsprogs so I'll do another release shortly once we've got all of the pending changes for the user-mode tools assembled. This release is mostly

Hello, I'm usign Kernel 2.2.19 with ext3 0.0.7b patches. I'm also using cbq to control bandwidth. The cbq is correctly creating the classes and queueing disciplines but, whenever I call cbq stop I get a kernel panic: > Aiee, killing interrupt handler > Kernel panic: Attempted to kill idle task! > In interrupt handler - not syncing The exact line in cbq script that is

We are looking to set up a cluster of machines using LVS and running EXT3 on each machine. Does anyone have any feedback on doing this? Any known gotchas? The stable version of IPVS kernel module is for 2.4.12. The latest stable kernel in 2.4.16 The latest patch for ext3 is for 2.4.14 or 2.4.17pre2. Any suggestions on what combo to try? Thanks, Charlie

Hi Everyone! Just to let you know, I am very happy ext3 made it thorugh to linux kernel 2.4.15 We have installed ext3 on several machines here at jtrix.org (including two laptops) and everything seems to be working fine. Our only concern is for our two public servers. They run linux 2.2.19 for stability reasons. On one of the laptops (dual booting 2.2.19 and 2.4.14) kernel 2.2.19 failed to

Hi all, ext3-0.0.5c is now up at: ftp.uk.linux.org:/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/ and ftp.*.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/sct/ext3/ The most important part of this release is the e2fsprogs: e2fsck now supports the journal changes for metadata-only journaling. Ted, I've changed around the use of jfs* include files in e2fsprogs quite heavily here. In each build directory --- the lib/ext2fs

Hi, just had an oops while spool uucp mails via uuxqt->postfix->procmail to multiple mailboxes on an UDMA IDE drive on my Laptop. All filesystems are ext3 and i am running 2.2.19 + ext3 + ide udma patches. When rebooting the system hang - After another reboot everything went smooth. invalid operand: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c014ca15>] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386

Hello All! I've asked this question on others lists but didn't found any answer - full distro upgrade was only reasonable option. I understand why ext3 patches require up-to-date e2fsprogs - ext2 in heavy development. Q1: Why ext3 requires 'very' up-to-date util-linux? I've tryed to upgrade from tarball - but realized that I can run into problems with my distro. SuSE