From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965824AbXDGMwF (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 08:52:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965829AbXDGMwF (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 08:52:05 -0400 Received: from smtp21.orange.fr ([80.12.242.46]:36660 "EHLO smtp21.orange.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965824AbXDGMwE (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 08:52:04 -0400 X-ME-UUID: 20070407125141708.AD09F1C00081@mwinf2123.orange.fr Message-ID: <461793E4.5040706@free.fr> Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:51:48 +0200 From: Laurent Riffard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr-FR; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ignatich Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Edward Shishkin Subject: Re: REISER4: fix for reiser4_write_extent References: <46157B5B.5000602@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46157B5B.5000602@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Le 06.04.2007 00:42, Ignatich a écrit : > While trying to find the cause of problems with reiser4 in recent > kernels I came across this. > > Incomplete write handling seem to be missing from reiser4_write_extent() > thanks to reiser4-temp-fix.patch. Strangely, there is a patch by Edward > Shishkin that should address that issue, but it is missing from -mm > tree. Please check. > > Max > This patch was added to -mm tree the 14 Dec 2006 (see http://www.mail-archive.com/mm-commits@vger.kernel.org/msg05338.html). It was then dropped from -mm tree the 05 Mar 2007 (see http://www.mail-archive.com/mm-commits@vger.kernel.org/msg10818.html), with this comment: "This patch was dropped because it is obsolete" No idea why it was obsolete. Does somebody know ? ~~ laurent