2007 Linux Storage Filesystem Workshop

2006-11-15 Thread Theodore Ts'o
The submission date for the Linux Storage and Filesystem Workshop is coming up quickly, and it would be good for ext4 to be well-represented. - Ted http://www.usenix.org/events/lsf07/cfp/ 2007 Linux Storage Filesystem Workshop Call for Position

Re: [RFC] Ext3 online defrag

2006-11-15 Thread Takashi Sato
Hi Alex, Thank you for your information. I have sent the patches of the defragmentation for a extent-based file on ext3 using your patches of the multi-block allocation. I'm happy if you have a time to review my patches. [RFC][PATCH 0/3] Extent base online defrag

Re: ext3: bogus i_mode errors with 2.6.18.1

2006-11-15 Thread Andre Noll
On 17:03, Andreas Dilger wrote: On Oct 30, 2006 10:55 +0100, Andre Noll wrote: Note that the patch does not address the EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_META_BG case yet. I'll have to look at this in more detail. See more below... Basically, the patch looks good enough to submit for inclusion.

pagefault in generic_file_buffered_write() causing deadlock

2006-11-15 Thread Badari Pulavarty
Hi Andrew MM experts, We are looking at a customer situation (on 2.6.16-based distro) - where system becomes almost useless while running some java stress tests. Root cause seems to be taking a pagefault in generic_file_buffered_write () after calling prepare_write. I am wondering 1) Why

Re: pagefault in generic_file_buffered_write() causing deadlock

2006-11-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:57:45 -0800 Badari Pulavarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are looking at a customer situation (on 2.6.16-based distro) - where system becomes almost useless while running some java stress tests. Root cause seems to be taking a pagefault in generic_file_buffered_write

#linuxfs irc channel

2006-11-15 Thread Dave Kleikamp
There is a very useful irc channel for file system development at OFTC. This is the same server that hosts #kernelnewbies. There was some discussion in today's ext4 conference call about having an ext4-specific channel, but it was agreed that the #linuxfs channel is probably the best place for