Re: ZFS in Buster

2019-06-01 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 06:43:55PM +0200, Dan wrote: > > The ZFS developers proposed the Linux developers to rewrite the whole > ZFS code and use GPL, but surprisingly the linux developers didn't > accept. See below: > https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/8314 I've read the thread, and there

Bug#790724: [am...@gmx.ch: Re: Bug#790724: 790724 - additional information]

2015-07-03 Thread Theodore Ts'o
), the other two used the kernel of the 8.0.0 (amd64) 4 GB iso image. Another, perhaps useful observation: the installation of Ubuntu 14.04.2 (amd64, Gnome) worked fine (as tested on one server). Best regards, François On 07/03/2015 06:43 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 02:02:41PM +0200

Bug#790724: [ty...@mit.edu: Re: Bug#790724: 790724 - additional information]

2015-07-03 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Forwarding messages that were dropped from 790...@bugs.debian.org... ---BeginMessage--- On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 08:53:28PM +0200, François P. Rotzinger wrote: I have run mkfs.ext2 manually, and the message displayed on the screen was that the partition was formatted (there was no error message).

Bug#790724: [am...@gmx.ch: Re: Bug#790724: 790724 - additional information]

2015-07-03 Thread Theodore Ts'o
), the other two used the kernel of the 8.0.0 (amd64) 4 GB iso image. Another, perhaps useful observation: the installation of Ubuntu 14.04.2 (amd64, Gnome) worked fine (as tested on one server). Best regards, François On 07/03/2015 06:43 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 02:02:41PM +0200

Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix race between write and fcntl(F_SETFL) ping.

2015-04-02 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 10:23:37PM +0300, Dmitry Monakhov wrote: Wow I've just got a good present for a fools day. It is appeared that stable kernel still has this bug(CVE-2014-8086) unfixed. At least my notebook (debian/testing 3.16.5) oopsed like follows: 3.16 is not a stable

Re: Random panic in load_balance() with 3.16-rc

2014-07-28 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 08:26:59AM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: Please note that the data produced by -g -fvar-tracking is consumed by tools like systemtap, perf, crash, and makes a significant difference to the observability of debug AND non-debug kernels. (The presence of compiled-in

Re: Random panic in load_balance() with 3.16-rc

2014-07-28 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:27:39AM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: It's not pretty, but adding it unconditionally was the right thing to do. Black listing compiler versions is too fragile. Look at the flip side: now size of build dir will be much smaller :) White-listing the fixed compiler

Re: Random panic in load_balance() with 3.16-rc

2014-07-26 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 09:35:57PM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: But fortunately the workaround for the new inode.c bug is the same as for the original bug: -fno-var-tracking-assignments. It would make sense to enabled it unconditionally for all debug configurations for now. What's

Bug#738758: [PATCH] ext4: optimize Hurd tests when reading/writing inodes

2014-03-24 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Set a in-memory superblock flag to indicate whether the file system is designed to support the Hurd. Also, add a sanity check to make sure the 64-bit feature is not set for Hurd file systems, since i_file_acl_high conflicts with a Hurd-specific field. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu

Bug#738758: [PATCH] ext4: optimize Hurd tests when reading/writing inodes

2014-03-21 Thread Theodore Ts'o
support file systems larger than 1GB[1] anyway. [1] http://walfield.org/pub/people/neal/papers/hurd-faq/FAQ.en.html#q2-6 Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu --- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 2 ++ fs/ext4/inode.c | 9 +++-- fs/ext4/super.c | 10 ++ 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6

Bug#738758: [PATCH] ext4: kill i_version support for Hurd-castrated file systems

2014-03-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
/vdc/bug umount /dev/vdc e2fsck -f /dev/vdc Addresses-Debian-Bug: #738758 Reported-By: Gabriele Giacone 1o5g4...@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 29 ++--- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4

Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

2013-06-06 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 01:24:57PM +0100, luke.leighton wrote: On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Tomasz Figa tomasz.f...@gmail.com wrote: I don't see any other solution here than moving all the Allwinner code to DT (as it has been suggested in this thread several times already), as this is

Re: [PATCH] ext4/jbd2: don't wait (forever) for stale tid caused by wraparound

2013-03-21 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 09:46:38PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: Good catch! But shouldn't we rather fix jbd2_log_wait_commit() instead of inventing new function? In most of the places where we call jbd2_log_start_commit(), we're actually starting the current running transaction. So the fact that

Re: [PATCH] ext4/jbd2: don't wait (forever) for stale tid caused by wraparound

2013-03-18 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 04:53:15AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: We need you to verify that this fix works first. If it does, it should get included in the various 3.x.y stable branches and in Debian kernel packages. I suspect it will be hard for George to verify this, since it requires a tid

Re: [PATCH] ext4/jbd2: don't wait (forever) for stale tid caused by wraparound

2013-03-18 Thread Theodore Ts'o
One other observeration; problems relating to tid wrap have been around for a very long time. It's an issue for both ext3 and ext4, so Red Hat and SuSE have been shipping QA'ed enterprise kernels with this issue for over a decade. This is one of the reasons why I don't think it's a good idea to

[PATCH] ext4/jbd2: don't wait (forever) for stale tid caused by wraparound

2013-03-17 Thread Theodore Ts'o
commit, to more quickly cause an tid wrap, and the regression tests seem to be passing without complaint. - Ted From 76b05344fef573701b22ced444223188f054f94d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:24:46

Bug#695182: [PATCH] Subtract min_free_kbytes from dirtyable memory

2013-01-26 Thread Theodore Ts'o
(In the teach a person to fish category...) If you know the file and line number where a bug/regression was introduced, the git blame command is a great tool for identifying the commit which changed a given line of code. Then use git tag --contains commit it to see when a particular commit was

Bug#692104: linux-image-3.2.0-3-amd64: NULL pointer dereference in ext4fs

2012-11-08 Thread Theodore Ts'o
28623c2f5b0dca3c3ea34fd6108940661352e276 Author: Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu Date: Wed Sep 5 01:31:50 2012 -0400 ext4: grow the s_group_info array as needed Previously we allocated the s_group_info array with enough space for any future possible growth of the file system via online resize

Bug#685726: linux-image-3.2.0-3-amd64: return error when trying to format image file (mkfs -t ext4 file.img)

2012-08-29 Thread Theodore Ts'o
). All of it on 1K and 4K file system block size. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner lczer...@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 170 -- 1 file changed, 88 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4

Bug#679830: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: Kernel bug observed in syslog when performing an rsync operation.

2012-07-22 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:26:18AM +0100, Imran Chaudhry wrote: Thanks for your reply Ben. As an aside, from what kernel version would you recommend use of ext4 in? Maybe I should use (tried and rusted) ext3 for my backup devices. I mentioned this problem in my local LUG and a couple of

Re: Bug#324550: Needs dependency fix [linux-image-2.6.12-1-686: install fails with cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory]

2005-08-24 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 05:52:32PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: Thinking about this issue, I agree with Ted's opinion - we don't probably need to consider about cross-release. However, actually this problem was caused by glibc, and such change made old e2fsprogs unusable. It's a bit hard to

Bug#324550: Needs dependency fix [linux-image-2.6.12-1-686: install fails with cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory]

2005-08-23 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 07:49:23PM +0900, Simon Horman [Horms] wrote: long time no see. It seems that the problem is indeed fixed if you get the sarge (or later) versions of e2fsprogs and glibc. However, some people don't have that, and its causing some breakage for those people. Would it be

Bug#324550: Needs dependency fix [linux-image-2.6.12-1-686: install fails with cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory]

2005-08-22 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:48:53AM +0900, Horms wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 04:47:14PM -0700, Tony Godshall wrote: Hi. Looks like building the initrd required an upgraded Depends: directly or indirectly to e2fsprogs. Not sure the minimum version required, but I had 1.35-6

Re: GCC version change / C++ ABI change

2005-07-06 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 11:39:59AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: It is my believe that the 2.4 kernel is still in wide spread use both indide and outside Debian, thats a cause for being concerned about it in my books. Indeed, its the kernel shipped with RHEL 3.x . Sort of. 2.4 kernels have

Bug#295422: e2fsprogs for Sarge

2005-04-09 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:36:58PM +0900, Horms wrote: Hi Ted, It seems that I missunderstood the preferences expressed by Steve Langasek in my discussions with him. As it turns out he feels that it would be best to get 0.37-2 ready, as 0.37-1 is currently in sarge and has been beaten upon

Bug#295422: e2fsprogs for Sarge

2005-04-07 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 12:33:53PM +0900, Horms wrote: Normally this would just be a matter of waiting for the new versions to filter down to testing, but as part of the attempts to get sarge released, testing was fozen a little while ago, so changes aren't propogating, while unstable marches

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:29:45PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Nope, i am aiming to clarify this issue with regard to the debian kernel, so that we may be clear with ourselves, and actually ship something which is not of dubious legal standing, and that we could get sued over for GPL violation.