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From: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: 2.4.2 fs/inode.c
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 14:32:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010322143234.A25603@cs.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010322134215.A25508@cs.cmu.edu> <20010322190452.C7756@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010322190452.C7756@redhat.com>; from sct@redhat.com on Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 07:04:52PM +0000

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 07:04:52PM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:42:15PM -0500, Jan Harkes wrote:
> > 
> > I found some code that seems wrong and didn't even match it's comment.
> > Patch is against 2.4.2, but should go cleanly against 2.4.3-pre6 as well.
>  
> Patch looks fine to me.  Have you tested it?  If this goes wrong,
> things break badly...

I've been running it for about a night and a morning now, nothing bad
has happened, my ext2 filesystem shows up clean when forcing a fsck.

If things actually break badly, it is a very serious bug in the
underlying FS. The FS should not 'happen to work' just because the VFS
inadvertedly marked unmodified inodes as being dirty.

Jan


  reply	other threads:[~2001-03-22 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-22 18:42 2.4.2 fs/inode.c Jan Harkes
2001-03-22 19:04 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-03-22 19:32   ` Jan Harkes [this message]
2001-03-22 20:21   ` Chris Mason
2001-03-26 17:51 ` Chris Mason

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