From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx0b-00082601.pphosted.com ([67.231.153.30]:54467 "EHLO mx0b-00082601.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750872Ab3LRTX0 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:23:26 -0500 From: Chris Mason To: "proski@gnu.org" CC: "linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Backporting bugfixes Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 19:23:08 +0000 Message-ID: <1387394605.25093.4.camel@ret.masoncoding.com> References: <20131218140615.dbjsgs7zkssgckos-cebfxv@webmail.spamcop.net> In-Reply-To: <20131218140615.dbjsgs7zkssgckos-cebfxv@webmail.spamcop.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-7" MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 14:06 -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: +AD4- Hello+ACE- +AD4- +AD4- I have noticed that there have been important fixes for btrfs in the +AD4- mainline Linux git repository. However, there is just one btrfs fix +AD4- in Linux 3.12.5 after 3.12. +AD4- +AD4- I think it's important to submit all serious bugfixes to the stable +AD4- kernels. It would protect users against data corruption and improve +AD4- the image of btrfs as a serious filesystem that can be trusted at +AD4- least with semi-important data. +AD4- +AD4- This post was inspired by http://lwn.net/Articles/577218/ and +AD4- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show+AF8-bug.cgi?id+AD0-1028750 +AD4- 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