Yes, I just looked at the code in /fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c and
the comment block above the warning message specifically mentions
the low-latency patches.
I feel better now, looks like my filesystem is safe...
Torrey
Andrew Morton wrote:
[...]
> > fall over, and during the run I got the following error/
> > warning message printed about 20 times on the console
> > and in the kernel log:
> >
> > vs-4150: reiserfs_new_blocknrs, block not free<4>
> >
>
> uh-oh. I probably broke reiserfs in the low-latency patch.
>
> It's fairly harmless - we drop the big kernel lock, schedule
> away. Upon resumption, the block we had decided to allocate
> has been allocated by someone else. The filesystem emits a
> warning and goes off to find a different block.
>
> Will fix.
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