Re: [GIT PULL] XFS update for 2.6.23 - revert a commit

Timothy Shimmin
2007-10-03T01:49:29Z

Hi Justin,

Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Lachlan McIlroy wrote:
>
>> Yeah that about sums it up. In an attempt to prevent log replay of
>> inodes
>> in cases when we shouldn't replay we also prevented log replay of
>> inodes in
>> cases when we should replay. We end up with directories that refer to
>> inodes
>> that were not replayed and we read existing data off disk. That existing
>> data is usually previous instances of inodes. We had cases of regular
>> files
>> turning into directories and inode version mismatches.
>>
>> Lachlan
>>
> In 2.6.23-rc8?
>
The bad change went into rc7 and was still there in rc8.
It was backed out for rc9.

--Tim