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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 00/22] Rewrite XIP code and add XIP support to ext4
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 06:48:25PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 08:24:18PM -0500, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > This series of patches add support for XIP to ext4. Unfortunately,
> > it turns out to be necessary to rewrite the existing XIP support code
> > first due to races that are unfixable in the current design.
> >
> > Since v4 of this patchset, I've improved the documentation, fixed a
> > couple of warnings that a newer version of gcc emitted, and fixed a
> > bug where we would read/write the wrong address for I/Os that were not
> > aligned to PAGE_SIZE.
> >
> > I've dropped the PMD fault patch from this set since there are some
> > places where we would need to split a PMD page and there's no way to do
> > that right now. In its place, I've added a patch which attempts to add
> > support for unwritten extents. I'm still in two minds about this; on the
> > one hand, it's clearly a win for reads and writes. On the other hand,
> > it adds a lot of complexity, and it probably isn't a win for pagefaults.
>
> FYI, this may just be pure coincidence, but shortly after the first
> boot of a machine with this patchset on 3.13 the root *ext3*
> filesystem started having problems. It now gives persistent ENOSPC
> errors when there's 2.3GB of space free (on a 8GB partition), even
> though e2fsck says the filesystem is clean and error free.
>
> Fmeh.
>
> Update: I've just removed the patchset, rebuilt the kernel and the
> ENOSPC problem is still there. So it may be co-incidence, but given
> that it is persistent something is screwed got screwed up in the
> filesytem.

OK, false alarm - it is co-incidence. The damn root filesystem ran
out of inodes. Can you beleive that you're only allowed 600k inodes
in an 8GB filesystems? Sheesh! :)

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com


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