diff -rup linux/fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c linux.patched/fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c
--- linux/fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c Thu Aug 30 14:52:23 2001
+++ linux.patched/fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c Thu Aug 30 16:19:47 2001
@@ -470,6 +470,7 @@ int reiserfs_new_unf_blocknrs2 (struct r
unsigned long border = 0;
unsigned long bstart = 0;
unsigned long hash_in, hash_out;
+ unsigned long saved_search_start=search_start;
int allocated[PREALLOCATION_SIZE];
int blks;
@@ -575,7 +576,15 @@ int reiserfs_new_unf_blocknrs2 (struct r
** and should probably be removed
*/
if ( search_start < border ) search_start=border;
-
+
+ /* If the disk free space is already below 10% we should
+ ** start looking for the free blocks from the beginning
+ ** of the partition, before the border line.
+ */
+ if ( SB_FREE_BLOCKS(th->t_super) <= (SB_BLOCK_COUNT(th->t_super) / 10) ) {
+ search_start=saved_search_start;
+ }
+
*free_blocknrs = 0;
blks = PREALLOCATION_SIZE-1;
for (blks_gotten=0; blks_gotten<PREALLOCATION_SIZE; blks_gotten++) {
