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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
To: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Cc: tytso@mit.edu, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tm@tao.ma
Subject: Re: ext4: fix metadata checksum calculation for the superblock
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:13:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121101011312.GG19591@blackbox.djwong.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121101010521.893.qmail@science.horizon.com>

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 09:05:21PM -0400, George Spelvin wrote:
> I'm currently running with two ext4 patches:
> 
> Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
> Date: Sun Oct 7 22:18:56 2012 -0400
> Subject: ext4: fix metadata checksum calculation for the superblock
> 
> Author: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
> Date: Wed Oct 17 12:51:30 2012 -0700
> Subject: ext4: Don't verify checksums of dx non-leaf nodes during fallback linear scan
> 
> They appear to fix real problems.  I notice, that neither of these have
> made it into 2.6.5.  Should they be sent to -stable at some point?
> 
> I'm not trying to overrule your judgements on the matter, just ensure that
> the omission is actually a conscious decision rather than an oversight.

<shrug> I was wondering too, but I figured Ted was probably busy dealing with
the corruption bug and such.

(Which itself doesn't seem to be in 3.6.x yet)

I suppose it's a good sign that it's been more than a week and you haven't hit
anything else...

--D

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-01  1:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-07  5:04 metadata_csum + unclean shutdown = failure to boot George Spelvin
2012-10-07 13:39 ` Tao Ma
2012-10-07 15:09   ` George Spelvin
2012-10-07 18:10     ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-07 20:18       ` George Spelvin
2012-10-07 22:54         ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-08  1:05           ` George Spelvin
2012-10-08  1:25           ` George Spelvin
2012-10-08  2:41             ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-08  3:17               ` George Spelvin
2012-10-08  4:03                 ` Tao Ma
2012-10-08 11:35                   ` George Spelvin
2012-11-01  1:05               ` ext4: fix metadata checksum calculation for the superblock George Spelvin
2012-11-01  1:13                 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2012-11-01  1:50                   ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-11-01  3:22                     ` Darrick J. Wong
2012-11-01  6:12                     ` George Spelvin
2012-11-01  6:49                       ` Darrick J. Wong
2012-11-01  7:07                         ` George Spelvin
2012-11-01  7:18                           ` Darrick J. Wong
2012-11-01  7:28                             ` George Spelvin
2012-11-02  0:05                               ` Darrick J. Wong

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