Re: mke2fs - Cant get free page

Marcus Berglund (mabs@netdig.com.au)
Fri, 15 Aug 1997 22:57:21 +1000 (EST)


On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:

>IMHO this was a missing statement in fs/buffer.c . See pre-patch-2.0.31-6
>
>[...]
>@@ -1527,8 +1551,10 @@
> #endif
> ll_rw_block(WRITE, 1, &bh);
Don't have the above
> bh->b_count--;
>+ next->b_count--;
Got that
> }
> }
>+ run_task_queue(&tq_disk);
Got that too
> #ifdef DEBUG
> if (ncount) printk("sync_old_buffers: %d dirty buffers not on dirty list\n", ncount);
> printk("Wrote %d/%d buffers\n", nwritten, ndirty);
>@@ -1633,6 +1659,7 @@
>[...]
>
>The run_task_queue() seems to be important one. Therefore the problem should
>be solved ... I hope.
>

This is my clean 2.0.30 + pre-6 patch (please tell me if I'm on the wrong
track totally)

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