Re: (subset) [PATCH v4 1/6] fs: enhance and rename shutdown() callback to remove_bdev()

Christian Brauner
2025-07-04T09:01:23Z

On Fri, 04 Jul 2025 10:12:29 +0930, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> Currently all the filesystems implementing the
> super_opearations::shutdown() callback can not afford losing a device.
>
> Thus fs_bdev_mark_dead() will just call the shutdown() callback for the
> involved filesystem.
>
> But it will no longer be the case, with multi-device filesystems like
> btrfs and bcachefs the filesystem can handle certain device loss without
> shutting down the whole filesystem.
>
> [...]

Moving this into a stable branch that won't change anymore and that you
can pull into btrfs/use as base for your patches.

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Applied to the vfs-6.17.super branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs-6.17.super branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch.

tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs-6.17.super

[1/6] fs: enhance and rename shutdown() callback to remove_bdev()