Hi all,
ext3-0.0.2e has been uploaded to
ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/ext3-0.0.2e.tar.gz
This release fixes a few problems seen on rare occasions, plus one
much more serious crash-on-unmount. It includes patches for both
2.2.17pre9, and the current Red Hat 2.2.16-3 errata kernel.
It also includes "orphan-list" code based on an implementation by
Andreas Dilger, for cleaning up inodes which have been unlinked but
are still held open by a process --- such inodes need to be deleted
properly on a crash.
The full list of changes is below.
I will now be starting to merge in a substantial amount of newer code,
including the new error-handling infrastructure for ext3 and the
metadata-only journaling. The plan is to keep this 0.0.2e release as
a 0.1 stable branch for those relying on ext3 while the new code is
being merged in.
Thanks to all who have helped with the testing of 0.0.2d so far.
Cheers,
Stephen
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Changes in this release
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in 0.0.2e:
Port forward to current (2.2.17pre9, and Red Hat errata 2.2.16-3)
kernels
Merge in a number of ext2 fixes from 2.2.15+:
* NFS versioning
* Set directory type information correctly on sockets
Fix a number of buffer leaks in recovery (prevents set_blocksize errors
on mounting filesystems)
sync(2) waits for current transactions correctly
Set the superblock s_dirt flag on all transaction completions
Fixed the order of asserts and buffer writes in fs/buffer.c: this was
causing false assertion failures on Mylex raid controllers
Delete the filesystem commit timer on unmount in all cases
Include Andreas Dilger's implementation of the "orphan list" code:
The orphan list maintains an on-disk list of inodes needing cleaned up
on recovery, including:
* Deletion of unlinked, but still opened, files after a reboot;
* Completion after recovery of truncates which were in progress but
which had to be split across a transaction boundary
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