Messages in this thread | | | From | Damien Wyart <> | Subject | Re: Important regression with XFS update for 2.6.24-rc6 | Date | Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:17:30 +0100 |
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* David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> [071219 11:45]: > Can someone pass me a brown paper bag, please?
My first impression on this bug was not so wrong, after all ;-)
> That also explains why we haven't seen it - it requires the user > buffer to fill on the first entry of a backing buffer and so it is > largely dependent on the pattern of name lengths, page size and > filesystem block size aligning just right to trigger the problem.
I guess I was lucky to trigger it quite easily...
> Can you test this patch, Damien?
Works fine, all the bad symptoms have disappeared and strace output is normal.
So you can add:
Tested-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
-- Damien
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