Re: [Fwd: ext2fs patch for large stores, RC1+20040304]

[Michael Banck]

Eh, I actually wanted to send this a while ago, sorry

On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 12:52:37PM +0200, Ognyan Kulev wrote:
> This fixes what Andrew Mitchell reported to me on 2003-10-28.  I'm not
> 100% sure if what Marco Gerards reported is fixed by this change.
> Marco, would you do some tests again?

I tested this a bit by compiling glibc on  2.4GB partition. It seems to
work quite well at first, but after a while, I got a couple of errors.
Most of them were plain freezes or Resource lost. I also had quite some
filesystem corruption when (forcibly) checking the file system. After
reverting the patch and to a smaller partition, I was able to build
glibc without problems :-/

This is the meaningful error message I encountered(transcribed):

ext2fs.static: ../../ext2fs/pager.c:1045: disk_cache_block_ref:
        Assertion '0 <= block && block <= store->size >>
        log2_block_size' failed.

Also, I noticed that I am no longer able to mount my (rather small) root
GNU/Linux partition, as it has less than 4kb blocks. I don't remember
specifying anything special when I install GNU/Linux, so I wonder
whether this is expected to be fixed/resolved?

> And don't forget that if you test the patch, you'll probably want
> patched e2fsprogs too.  You can get the patch from
> http://debian.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/~ogi/hurd/ext3fs/ .  It applies cleanly
> to e2fsprogs_1.35-2 (with some offsets, but without *.rej files).

Did you try to get it applied upstream?


Michael

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