[darcs-users] Re: darcs and patches@ mail

Mirian Crzig Lennox list-darcs-users at cosmic.com
Tue Feb 17 20:57:50 UTC 2004


aoiko at cc.ece.ntua.gr (Aggelos Economopoulos) writes:
>
> In fact it appears to have been resolved later that day:
> https://listman.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2003-August/msg00055.html
>
> Here's the patch
> https://listman.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2003-August/msg00046.html
>
> which is definitely in 2.6.2 (probably 2.5 too). Now if you could
> reproduce the bug with a current 2.6 kernel, that would be
> interesting.

I can't speak to 2.6 kernels, but I can definitely exercise the bug in
the latest 2.4 kernel (2.4.24), released 5th January.

> More or less. You'll just have to point me to unresolved bugs to justify
> your "Ext3 still has some serious problems" claim 8)

For a bug of that severity to surface so late in the 2.4 branch (which
by now is supposed to be stable, mature, boringly reliable) is not
something to be dismissed lightly.

> Seriously, if you
> have ext3 bug reports lying around *do* let someone know.

Trust me, this isn't a secret.  People running gentoo with /var on an
Ext3 filesystem have been getting pounded by this bug.  More info
here.

     <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24991>

Mirian




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