April 1, 2026 at 12:17 AM, "Milos Nikic" <[email protected] mailto:[email protected]?to=%22Milos%20Nikic%22%20%3Cnikic.milos%40gmail.com%3E > wrote:
> > Hi Samuel, > Just dropping a quick ping on this v5 thread now that it's been a couple of > weeks. > > Since sending it, I’ve (and some other people) continued stress-testing it > and using it daily on top of all the patches that came through in > between. May I ask how many people are using the beta "ext3fs" on the Hurd? Do we have any real hardware testers? > It works great but there is an assert that blows up on unjournaled mounts in > v5 (as mentioned previously), and some compiler warnings when > compiled on 32-bit and a rare deadlock that only triggers when the ring > buffer reaches 100% saturation under synthetic I/O. > I have the fixes for all of that ready in my local tree. They don't change > the architecture at all! > To make your eventual review as easy as possible, how would you like me to > handle them? > > Should I send a v6 now with those fixes included, or hold onto them until > you've had a chance to look at the core v5 architecture? > > Best, > Milos >
