[Gluster-users] ext4 issue explained

[Brian Candler]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 01:37:32AM -0700, Joe Julian wrote:
> Do you have a link to any info on that issue?
> 
> Does it only affect RedHat, or does it also affect distros running new
> kernels?
> 
> I am using ext4 rather than xfs because I was reliably able to make machines
> running xfs lock up (these are Ubuntu not RedHat BTW) just by throwing
> bonnie++ load at them, but not when running the same test on ext4.
> 
>    I have written up an article at
>    [1]http://joejulian.name/blog/glusterfs-bit-by-ext4-structure-change/

Many thanks. I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 with a 3.2.0 kernel - so this shouldn't
affect me, as long as the Ubuntu people don't backport this patch as well
:-)

Cheers,

Brian.