Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2

Alexander Viro
2000-09-25T02:01:04Z

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 09:27:39PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > So help testing the patches to them. Arrgh...
>
> I think I'd better fix the bugs that I know about before testing patches that
> tries to remove the superblock_lock at this stage. I guess you should
> re-read the email from DaveM of two days ago.

Erm... Did you miss the fact that minixfs/sysvfs/UFS are choke-full of
fs-corrupting races? Patch for minixfs had been posted 3 times during the
last couple of weeks, each time with [CFT] in subject. So far - 0
(zero) responces. I'm way past the stage when I gave a damn - it works
here and if I will not receive any bug reports it will go to Linus on
Tuesday.

And no, that stuff has nothing to lock_super(). But unless people will
test the patches posted on l-k and fsdevel - too fscking bad, stuff _will_
break.