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From: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: Niv Sardi-Altivanik <xaiki@sgi.com>,
	sgi.bugs.xfs@engr.sgi.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: TAKE 981498 - remove mounpoint UUID code
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:06:21 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <488D1B8D.4020802@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4889EAC9.5070304@sandeen.net>

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Dave Chinner wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:45:42PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>> Niv Sardi-Altivanik wrote:
>>>> remove mounpoint UUID code
>>> Are you sure this didn't change any disk structures?  The patch I sent
>>> was RFC and completely untested...  (and disclosed as such...) :)
>> Looking at the original patch, it definitely does change the format
>> of log structures on disk. it removes the union of the uuid and rdev
>> in the xfs_inode_log_format[32|64] which takes that entry from 16
>> bytes down to 4 bytes. So I'd suggest that thisss should be removed
>> immediately before it hits public and people start corrupting their
>> filesystems....
> 
> Yep.  Well crud, I even knew that when I sent it, hence the
> RFC/untested/blah/blah but I suppose I shouldn't send a patch that I
> know to be busted even if it's just as a whaddya-think.  I'll pad out
> the union, check all the log structs, run qa & resend.
> 
> And despite all the talk about community & contributors running qa and
> helping with test coverage - as a general rule do sgi devels run qa too
> before committing?
Yes.  Well we are supposed to anyway.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-28  0:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-25  3:38 TAKE 981498 - remove mounpoint UUID code Niv Sardi-Altivanik
2008-07-25  3:45 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-07-25  5:01   ` Dave Chinner
2008-07-25 15:01     ` Eric Sandeen
2008-07-28  1:06       ` Lachlan McIlroy [this message]
2008-07-28  1:56       ` Timothy Shimmin

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