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From: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
To: "proski@gnu.org" <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: "linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Backporting bugfixes
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 19:23:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1387394605.25093.4.camel@ret.masoncoding.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131218140615.dbjsgs7zkssgckos-cebfxv@webmail.spamcop.net>

On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 14:06 -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have noticed that there have been important fixes for btrfs in the  
> mainline Linux git repository.  However, there is just one btrfs fix  
> in Linux 3.12.5 after 3.12.
> 
> I think it's important to submit all serious bugfixes to the stable  
> kernels.  It would protect users against data corruption and improve  
> the image of btrfs as a serious filesystem that can be trusted at  
> least with semi-important data.
> 
> This post was inspired by http://lwn.net/Articles/577218/ and
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1028750
> 

Hi Pavel,

We do tag some commits for stable, but Dave Sterba actually just sent a
request to the stable tree to pull in a few more.

-chris


  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-18 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-18 19:06 Backporting bugfixes Pavel Roskin
2013-12-18 19:23 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2013-12-18 19:31   ` Pavel Roskin
2013-12-18 21:01     ` Duncan

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