Re: [PATCH] blindingly stupid 2.2 VM bug

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Nov 30 2000 - 06:47:08 EST


Hi,

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:35:32PM -0800, John Kennedy wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 01:04:16AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:36:15PM -0800, John Kennedy wrote:
> > > No, it is all ext3fs stuff that is touching the same areas your
> >
> > Ok this now makes sense. I ported VM-global-7 on top of ext3 right now
> > but it's untested:
>
> Not for long. (:
>
> > ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.2/2.2.18pre18/VM-global-2.2.18pre18-7-against-ext3-0.0.3b-1.bz2
>
> Is ext3-0.0.3b the most current/stable?

Yes. 0.0.5b is out with metadata-only journaling, but it hasn't had
the same amount of testing which 3b has had.

> ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs at least) it looks like
> ext3-0.0.2f is current (which is what I've been using), but under the
> test directory I see ext3-0.0.3b as well as ext3-0.0.5b. I haven't
> heard anything new about ext3fs in a long, long time.

linux-fsdevel has had a fair amount of traffic on it, and there's also
ext3-users@redhat.com (https://listman.redhat.com to subscribe). You
won't have seen much if you've only been watching linux-kernel.

Cheers,
 Stephen
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