Re: [PATCH 1/3] Preserve the dirty bit in init_page_buffers

Andrew Morton
2007-05-31T15:56:12Z

On Thu, 31 May 2007 05:56:33 -0600 ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> >> I suspect that is a pretty rare case but it does indeed seem to exist
> >> as a problem.
> >
> > I think so too. But either we have some misunderstanding of the
> > codepaths involved, or the author of the comments there didn't
> > consider this case, so...
>
> Do someone needs to stand up and write the additional patches.
> Do we have a maintainer for fs/buffer.c?

me, if any one, I guess. But I haven't really been following
this discussion - too long and slow ;) 'twould be good if you
could reprise it all in one email, presumably in diff -u form..