From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Phil Sorber <aafes@psu.edu>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.15aa1
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 20:39:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011124203901.Q1419@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011124085028.C1419@athlon.random> <1006629351.1470.8.camel@praetorian>
In-Reply-To: <1006629351.1470.8.camel@praetorian>; from aafes@psu.edu on Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 02:15:50PM -0500
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 02:15:50PM -0500, Phil Sorber wrote:
> On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 02:50, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > Only in 2.4.15aa1: 00_iput-unmount-corruption-fix-1
> >
> > Fix iput umount corruption.
>
> Is this the problem that Al put out a patch for yesterday? And is his
> patch been tested and working?
it's an alternate fix (goes back to the pre8 way).
>
> > Only in 2.4.15aa1: 00_read_super-stale-inode-1
> >
> > If read_super fails avoid lefting stale inodes queued into
> > the superblock.
>
> What is this? How dangerous is it?
pre8 and all previous kernels could left a stale inode if read_super
failed after an iget [see the discussion with Al on l-k]. this patch
should fix it in practice for all fs in the kernel.
Andrea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-24 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-24 7:50 2.4.15aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-11-24 9:45 ` 2.4.15aa1 Paulo J. Matos aka PDestroy
2001-11-24 10:05 ` 2.4.15aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-11-24 19:15 ` 2.4.15aa1 Phil Sorber
2001-11-24 19:34 ` 2.4.15aa1 Russell King
2001-11-24 19:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-11-26 16:14 ` 2.4.15aa1 bill davidsen
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