[PATCH][ALPHA 2] ext2fs and large stores (> 1.5G)

[Ognyan Kulev]

The second alpha release is ready.  It is much more stable than the 
first alpha release.  I can no longer experience data corruption, 
although there was one mysterious crash and one mysterious hang during 
testing.

GET IT FROM
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http://debian.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/~ogi/hurd/ext3fs/

HELPING
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Just try the patch.  If you have problems and you believe they are 
caused by the patch, please sent me a mail with details (to 
<ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>).

CUSTOMIZING
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The server uses a cache for indirect blocks.  The size of the cache is 
currently set to 20 so that bugs show up faster.  You can change the 
definition in ext2fs.h:191 to something like 2000.  I can live with 
cache of 5 blocks on my Pentium II 450MHz, but this value quickly 
exhausts the cache on P4 1.6GHz.

FUTURE RELEASES
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Beta 1 (and Beta 2, if there is such) will work with block sizes 
different than vm_page_size (4k).

Release Candidate 1 will be uploaded to Savannah's Patch system.

Regards
--
Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>, "\"Programmer\""