Re: Ext4 tree backports for 2.6.27.13 and 2.6.28.2

Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-02-11T07:59:37Z

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:25:39AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> I've updated the ext4 backport branches on the ext4 git tree:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git
>
> The for-stable branch is branched off of 2.6.28.2, and has a candidate
> set of patches to be included in the next stable release. The
> for-stable-2.6.27 branch is branched off of 2.6.27.13.
>
> I'm more confident with the 2.6.28 stable candidate than the 2.6.27
> stable candidates at the moment, but given that we just missed the
> 2.6.27.14 and 2.6.28.3 release cycles, that should give us plenty of
> time to test the patches.
>
> - Ted
>
>
> 8556e8f3 18d5cb0 fd3bd090
> ext4: Don't allow new groups to be added during block allocation
>

This commit on for-stable-2.6.27 is not complete.
ac->alloc_semp is not assigned in the code.

-aneesh