Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] Revert "writeback: limit write_cache_pages integrity scanning to current EOF"

[Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 01:16:11AM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 07:20:33PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Your call, I guess.  If any ocfs2 fix looks scary, and you'd prefer to
> > have an -rc4 (in a few days - not today) with just the revert, I'm ok
> > with that. Even if it's only a "at least no worse than 2.6.34"
> > situation rather than a real fix.
> 
> 	If -rc4 isn't coming for a couple of days, can we hold off on
> the decision until we get a chance to think about a paper-over solution
> for it?  Then we can avoid the revert.

Linus,
	I'm going to withdraw the revert request for now.  Our proposed
paper-over solution is too big, and we're just going to focus on the
actual fix.  This will be for .35.  Yes, .35-rc will have a BUG_ON with
refcount trees until we get the fix in, but I'd rather avoid the churn
when the final .35 should have Dave's patch and our fix.

Joel

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Joel Becker
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