[PATCH] FLEX_BG Kernel support v2.

2007-09-11 Thread Jose R. Santos
From: Jose R. Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> FLEX_BG Kernel support v2. This feature relaxes check restrictions on where each block groups meta data is located within the storage media. This allows for the allocation of bitmaps or inode tables outside the block group boundaries in cases where bad

Re: [PATCH] FLEX_BG Kernel support.

2007-09-11 Thread Jose R. Santos
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:21:39 -0600 Andreas Dilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 11, 2007 07:27 -0500, Jose R. Santos wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:04:43 -0600 > > "Andreas Dilger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 9/10/07, Jose R. Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > @@ -1254,7 +

Re: [PATCH] FLEX_BG Kernel support.

2007-09-11 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Sep 11, 2007 07:27 -0500, Jose R. Santos wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:04:43 -0600 > "Andreas Dilger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/10/07, Jose R. Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > @@ -1254,7 +1254,8 @@ static int ext4_check_descriptors (struct > > > super_block * sb) > > > > > >

Re: new mballoc patches.

2007-09-11 Thread Mingming Cao
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 13:59 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > I have updated the mballoc patches. The same can be found at > > http://www.radian.org/~kvaneesh/ext4/patch-series/ > > > > The series file is > > # This series applies on GIT commit b07d68b5ca4d55a16fab223d63d5fb36f89ff42f > ext4-j

Re: 2.6.23-rc6: hanging ext3 dbench tests

2007-09-11 Thread Andy Whitcroft
Annoyingly this seems to be intermittent, and I have not managed to get a machine into this state again yet. Will keep trying. -apw - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/

Re: 2.6.23-rc6: hanging ext3 dbench tests

2007-09-11 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > > I have a couple of failed test runs against 2.6.23-rc6 where the > job timed out while running dbench over ext3. Both on powerpc, > though both significantly different hardware setups. A failed > run like this implies that the machine was still res

Re: 2.6.23-rc6: hanging ext3 dbench tests

2007-09-11 Thread Jan Kara
> I have a couple of failed test runs against 2.6.23-rc6 where the > job timed out while running dbench over ext3. Both on powerpc, > though both significantly different hardware setups. A failed > run like this implies that the machine was still responsive to > other processes but the dbench was

Re: new mballoc patches.

2007-09-11 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: I have updated the mballoc patches. The same can be found at http://www.radian.org/~kvaneesh/ext4/patch-series/ Test status: Minor testing with KVM. I also didn't do a PPC build. running fsstress on ppc64 give me EXT4-fs: group 9: 16384 blocks in bitmap, 3225

2.6.23-rc6: hanging ext3 dbench tests

2007-09-11 Thread Andy Whitcroft
I have a couple of failed test runs against 2.6.23-rc6 where the job timed out while running dbench over ext3. Both on powerpc, though both significantly different hardware setups. A failed run like this implies that the machine was still responsive to other processes but the dbench was making no

Re: [PATCH] FLEX_BG Kernel support.

2007-09-11 Thread Jose R. Santos
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:04:43 -0600 "Andreas Dilger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/10/07, Jose R. Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > @@ -1254,7 +1254,8 @@ static int ext4_check_descriptors (struct super_block > > * sb) > > > > for (i = 0; i < sbi->s_groups_count; i++) > > {

new mballoc patches.

2007-09-11 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
I have updated the mballoc patches. The same can be found at http://www.radian.org/~kvaneesh/ext4/patch-series/ The series file is # This series applies on GIT commit b07d68b5ca4d55a16fab223d63d5fb36f89ff42f ext4-journal_chksum-2.6.20.patch ext4-journal-chksum-review-fix.patch ext4_uninit_b