From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Ts'o Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4/jbd2: don't wait (forever) for stale tid caused by wraparound Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:34:04 -0400 Message-ID: <20130318143404.GB14430@thunk.org> References: <1363412062.3937.196.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> <20130318025401.GA12611@thunk.org> <91B5F5AF93734BAA86939ED896DDEF63@atlassian.com> <1363582395.3937.319.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> <20130318143156.GA14430@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: George Barnett , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Debian kernel maintainers To: Ben Hutchings Return-path: Received: from li9-11.members.linode.com ([67.18.176.11]:54108 "EHLO imap.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751366Ab3CROeJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:34:09 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130318143156.GA14430@thunk.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: One other observeration; problems relating to tid wrap have been around for a very long time. It's an issue for both ext3 and ext4, so Red Hat and SuSE have been shipping QA'ed enterprise kernels with this issue for over a decade. This is one of the reasons why I don't think it's a good idea to rush a fix into mainline, the stable 3.2.x kernels, or the Debian kernel, until we really make sure we have any proposed bug fixes fully tested and verified. - Ted