Hi Charles,
2009/12/25 Charles Manning <
cdhmanning@gmail.com>:
> Well what a Christmas day! If you're in a Christmas culture, then
> Happy Christmas.
>
> It looks like I might finally have the FSX monkey off my back.
>
> I found and fixed a problem in the way trees with wide tnodes were being pruned.
>
> To manifest, needs quite a complicated sequence of truncated down,
> then up, then down again... the sort of stuff triggered by fsx but
> very seldom in real-wold applications which probably explains why this
> bug has been around for 4 or so years.
>
> This did not fail my earlier fsx tests because those were on smaller
> partitions that did not trigger the problem.
>
> The fixed code seems to be surviving fsx pretty well.
>
> Note that this is a fix and does not need the wideTnodeDisable hack
> mentioned below.That was just a debugging hack.
>
> Changes are checked in as yaffs_guts V1.100. I like the neatness of that.
>
> Thanks particularly to JiSheng Zang for helping fix this problem.
>
> I'll go be a Family Man now... great weather here in New Zealand, 32 deg C....
>
> -- CHarles
>
After almost 3 hours test, no failure so far! Very Cool! This
Christmas day is really an exciting Christmas day! Thanks very much
for your work. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Cheers,
Jisheng
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