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

Justin Piszcz
2007-10-03T08:11:55Z

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Timothy Shimmin wrote:

> 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
>

If one with was running 2.6.23-rc8 with XFS, does that mean we should run
xfs_repair on our filesystems after upgrading to -rc9?

Justin.