PATCH: ext3-0.0.2f released

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Jul 06 2000 - 09:28:27 EST


Hi,

On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:18:55PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>
> ext3-0.0.2e has been uploaded to
> ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/ext3-0.0.2e.tar.gz

This has now been superceded by ext3-0.0.2f (patch enclosed), which
fixes a major bug --- the new truncate code in 0.0.2e did not
propagate extensions of existing directories to disk (existing,
sufficiently-padded directories would not be affected, but appending a
lot of new dirents to an existing directory could leave the new
dirents unreachable after a reboot). e2fsck should be able to restore
the directories if this has caught anybody --- the contents of the
directories was not lost, only the update of the on-disk copy of the
directory's size was being missed.

I'll push a complete set of clean ext3-0.0.2f patches out to
ftp.uk.linux.org shortly, but in the mean time please apply the patch
below if you are running 0.0.2e.

Andreas, I also found that your orphan list code was missing the case
of a "rmdir" of a directory still being used as the working directory
of an existing process. 0.0.2f should also clean up such a case on
reboot.

Cheers,
 Stephen



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