ext3-0.9.18 is now available for 2.4.19-pre8. Some of the fixes in
this release are already in the 2.4.19-pre8, but there are some
important new fixes in the patch and users are encouraged to upgrade.
This release fixes all known outstanding bug reports.
The full patch against linux-2.4.19-pre8, and a tarball of the
individual fixes in this patch set, is now propagating to
ftp://ftp.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/sct/ext3/v2.4/
The full list of changes is included below.
Cheers,
Stephen
--- ChangeLog:* Speed up MS_SYNC writes * Set up kjournald to be parented under init properly * config: ext3 is no longer experimental * fix i_blocks getting inconsistent after disk full * speed up fsyncs in non-journaled data modes a little * don't consider ENOSPC a fatal error when allocating an inode * fix LVM snapshot deadlock * fix "dump corrupts filesystems" core VFS bug * fix over-zealous ext3 complaint about locked buffers * fix very rare buffer leak * fix O_SYNC * fix tiny race where a buffer could be written to disk too soon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/