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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [MTD] Fix JFFS2 sync silent failure
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:05:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100422110551.GD27497@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1271933891.11751.1508.camel@macbook.infradead.org>

On Thu, Apr 22 2010, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 12:39 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > 
> > Here's a series for fixing these. At this point they are totally
> > untested except that I did compile them. Note that your analysis
> > appeared correct for all cases but ocfs2, which does use get_sb_bdev()
> > and hence gets ->s_bdi assigned.
> > 
> > You can see them here, I'll post the series soon:
> > 
> > http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/for-linus
> > 
> > The first patch is a helper addition, the rest are per-fs fixups.
> 
> Do you want to include Jörn's addition of same to get_sb_mtd_set(), with
> my Acked-By: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> ? 

Yeah will do. I also really wanted to provide a WARN and mount fail if
we get it wrong, but I don't see an easy way to do that. Basically I'd
want to check whether the storage backing is volatile or not.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-22 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-17 18:40 [PATCH] [MTD] Fix JFFS2 sync silent failure Jörn Engel
2010-04-19  7:38 ` Jens Axboe
2010-04-19 10:15   ` Jörn Engel
2010-04-19 10:20     ` Jens Axboe
2010-04-19 11:39       ` Jörn Engel
2010-04-22  5:54       ` Jörn Engel
2010-04-22  6:26         ` Jörn Engel
2010-04-22 14:25           ` Linus Torvalds
2010-04-22 14:33             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-04-22 16:27               ` Jens Axboe
2010-04-22 20:33                 ` [Patch] Catch filesystems lacking s_bdi Jörn Engel
2010-04-23 10:05                   ` Jens Axboe
2010-04-23 20:55                     ` Jörn Engel
2010-04-26  9:48                       ` Jens Axboe
2010-04-26 14:32                         ` Jörn Engel
2010-04-26 14:38                           ` Jens Axboe
2010-04-26 14:45                             ` Jens Axboe
2010-04-26 16:30                               ` [PATCH 1/2] [MTD] Move mtd_bdi_*mappable to mtdcore.c Jörn Engel
2010-04-26 16:31                                 ` [PATCH 2/2] [MTD] Call bdi_init() and bdi_register() Jörn Engel
2010-04-26 17:02                                   ` Jens Axboe
2010-04-26 17:12                                     ` Jörn Engel
2010-04-27  7:52                                       ` Jens Axboe
2010-04-27  8:11                                         ` Paolo Minazzi
2010-04-27  8:16                                           ` Jens Axboe
2010-04-27 11:29                                         ` Jörn Engel
2010-04-27 11:33                                           ` Jens Axboe
2010-04-27  9:01                                   ` Paolo Minazzi
2010-04-27  9:16                                     ` Jens Axboe
2010-04-27  9:26                                       ` Paolo Minazzi
2010-04-27  9:29                                         ` Jens Axboe
2010-04-27  9:36                                           ` Paolo Minazzi
2010-04-27 11:17                                     ` Jörn Engel
2010-04-27 11:31                                       ` Paolo Minazzi
2010-04-27 11:40                                         ` Jörn Engel
2010-04-27 11:48                                           ` [PATCH] [LogFS] Return -EINVAL if filesystem image doesn't match Jörn Engel
2010-04-27 12:53                                             ` Paolo Minazzi
2010-04-27 11:54                                           ` [PATCH 2/2] [MTD] Call bdi_init() and bdi_register() Paolo Minazzi
2010-04-27 12:05                                             ` Jörn Engel
2010-04-26 17:01                                 ` [PATCH 1/2] [MTD] Move mtd_bdi_*mappable to mtdcore.c Jens Axboe
2010-04-26 17:08                                   ` Jörn Engel
2010-04-26 17:10                                     ` Jens Axboe
2010-04-22  9:03         ` [PATCH] [MTD] Fix JFFS2 sync silent failure Jens Axboe
2010-04-22 10:39           ` Jens Axboe
2010-04-22 10:58             ` David Woodhouse
2010-04-22 11:05               ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2010-04-22 11:55             ` Jörn Engel
2010-04-22 12:08               ` Jens Axboe
2010-04-22 12:17                 ` Jörn Engel

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