Re: [PATCH] Bug in ext2 in 2.2.15pre20?

From: Malcolm Beattie (mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Fri May 05 2000 - 04:39:16 EST


tytso@valinux.com writes:
> Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 17:20:51 +0100
> From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
>
> Looks like there's a long-standing thinko in the block bitmap caching
> in ext2 in 2.2. The inode bitmap cache looks fine.
>
> Ted, want to ack this? It looks wrong in 2.3 too, btw.
>
> Yup, it's a bug, all right. We're lucky this hasn't caused us problems
> on large filesystems.

Can anyone confirm that this is (or is not) a problem in 2.0 too? The
logic there seems only slightly different (sets slot = 0 and falls
through lower down instead of returning straight away).

--Malcolm

-- 
Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>
Unix Systems Programmer
Oxford University Computing Services

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