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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: updated writeback patches for 2.5.8
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 23:53:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CC3B372.A219A7AE@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CC3AD8C.630D4B74@zip.com.au> <20020422074231.A8247@infradead.org>

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 11:28:28PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Minix and sysvfs are broken - fixing those will happen shortly
> 
> I will do sysvfs - there's a large number of changes pending and it'd
> rather appliy them in the right order..
> 

Thanks.  It looks to be very similar to the ext2 changes.

We also need to not go BUG() if ->prepare_write returns
an error.  It's pretty unlikely - it'd need an IO error
against an indirect which had already been successfully
read and then evicted (I think).  But proper recovery there
would be better.

-

  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-22  6:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-22  6:28 updated writeback patches for 2.5.8 Andrew Morton
2002-04-22  6:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-04-22  6:53   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-04-22  7:07 ` J Sloan

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