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From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3: skip orphan cleanup on rocompat fs
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:09:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110228180950.GD20805@quack.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimLAL7hPL+Yb392hyVAWEfHtObv7WwjzKt2awur@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat 26-02-11 22:40:19, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> Orphan cleanup is currently executed even on readonly mount.
> It deletes inodes and frees blocks, which could be very bad for some
> RO_COMPAT features, HAS_SNAPSHOT to name one.
> 
> Now the damage is done, because current stock kernels may
> corrupt future fs with readonly compatible features,
> when doing orphan cleanup.
> 
> This patch skips the orphan cleanup if readonly compatible features
> would prevent the fs from being mounted (or remounted) readwrite.
  Thanks Amir. I actually took the version Ted committed to ext4 and ported
it for ext3. Anyway, the patch is in my tree.

								Honza

-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-28 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-26 20:40 [PATCH] ext3: skip orphan cleanup on rocompat fs Amir Goldstein
2011-02-28 10:14 ` Rogier Wolff
2011-02-28 13:10   ` Amir Goldstein
2011-02-28 18:22   ` Jan Kara
2011-02-28 18:49     ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-28 19:32       ` Jan Kara
2011-02-28 19:05     ` Eric Sandeen
2011-02-28 18:22   ` Ted Ts'o
2011-02-28 18:09 ` Jan Kara [this message]
2011-03-24 10:34   ` Amir Goldstein
2011-03-24 16:07     ` [stable] " Greg KH

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