On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 05:06:42PM -0400, Calvin Walton wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 17:19 -0400, Josef Bacik wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Just found a big bug in the free space caching stuff that will result in > > early ENOSPC. I'm working on fixing this bug, but it won't be until > > tomorrow that I'll have it completely working, so for now make sure to > > mount -o clear_cache so that it just clears the cache and doesn't use it. > > > > NOTE: It doesn't cause problems other than early ENOSPC, you won't get > > corruption or anything like that, tho you could possibly panic. > > > > Sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks, > > Any chance you could provide a little more information about which > kernels are affected? Is it any kernel with free space cache support (is > 2.6.38.x included?) - and if so, do you plan on submitting the fix to > the stable kernel series? >
Yeah it affects any kernel that has the free space cache feature, which I think started in .37. Course you have to have specifically enabled it, so it's not a huge problem. I've submitted a patch, but since it's currently an optional feature I don't think it needs to go to stable. Thanks, Josef -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
