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

[Aggelos Economopoulos]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:57:50 -0500
Mirian Crzig Lennox <list-darcs-users at cosmic.com> wrote:
> 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.

WTF? There is no htree code in 2.4 (just had a look at
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/). Looks like you're talking
about the gentoo sources - if they decide they want to import 2.5
features and can't get it right go bug them.

AFAICT, this is a bug that doesn't even eat your data, was fixed last
August within a day after it was reported and only happened on the
unstable series. That's what you've got against ext3?!

> > 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>

See above. Now can we end this thread? It's been off topic for so
long that it's not even funny anymore.

Aggelos