[Lustre-discuss] Problems patching fs/jbd/checkpoint.c in RHEL4 2.6.9-67.0.4 kernel

[Andreas Dilger]

On Mar 18, 2008  11:44 -0600, Chris Worley wrote:
> My manual patching of the rejects in checkpoint.c didn't work out; a
> delete of 10,000 files caused a panic (in any ext fs, not just
> Lustre).
> 
> In the new checkpoint.c, two routines expected by the patch no longer
> exist: __cleanup_transaction and __flush_buffer.
> 
> How critical are/were these patches?

You didn't name which patches you are having trouble with, but it looks
like the jbd-stats patch.  That one isn't at all important.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.