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

[Ognyan Kulev]

Michael Banck wrote:
> 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 :-/

I've completely revised core function disk_cache_block_ref and now it 
uses simpler approach to remapping pages to blocks.  I've run compiling 
glibc and after 5 hours the microkernel paniced (zalloc 8192). 
Unfortunately, then there was long search of mysterious hurd bug until I 
found it in libihash.  So my time in this week for testing is eaten. 
Would you just give a single try to my pre-RC2 snapshot[1]?

[1] http://debian.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/~ogi/hurd/ext3fs/

Regards,
ogi