[PATCH 5/6] xfs: register the inode cache shrinker before quotachecks

Dave Chinner david at fromorbit.com
Fri Mar 25 18:08:05 CDT 2011


On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 01:56:22PM +0100, Michael Weissenbacher wrote:
> > From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm at maven.pl>
> > On Wednesday 23 of March 2011, Dave Chinner wrote:
> >> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>
> > 
> > Thanks a lot for this patch. I was able to mount my two ~800GB filesystems 
> > with quota enabled without out of memory/machine reboot suprises (which were 
> > happening without this patch every time I tried mount with quota).
> Seconded, this also solved my long-standing problems with a Quota mounts
> on some 32-bit i686 and low-mem x64 machines.
> 
> I tested the patch with Kernel 2.6.38.1-i686 on a ~500GB fs which
> refused to mount with quotas for some time now.
> 
> Is there any chance that this patch will be integrated/backparted to
> older kernels like 2.6.32.x, 2.6.35.x?

The patch will be committed with a CC to stable at kernel.org, so that
should happen magically once this is in mainline.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com




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