Re: 2.4.15aa1

[pocm@rnl.ist.utl.pt (Paulo J. Matos aka PDestroy)]

Will this fix the potential possibility of 2.4.15 screwing my
system? (inode problem as people have been mentioning it, etc?)

Best regards,

Paulo

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> writes:

> Note: the "00_read_super-stale-inode-1" fix is under discussion with Al,
> but overall it should be just ok for public consumation (even if that
> are may change if we find any better alternative, at the moment I think
> it is better (cleaner, simpler and faster) alternative than the iput
> changes in function of the MS_ACTIVE info).
> 
> URL:
> 
> 	ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.15aa1.bz2
> 	ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.15aa1/
> 
> Only in 2.4.15aa1: 00_iput-unmount-corruption-fix-1
> 
> 	Fix iput umount corruption.
> 
> Only in 2.4.15aa1: 00_read_super-stale-inode-1
> 
> 	If read_super fails avoid lefting stale inodes queued into
> 	the superblock.
> 
> Only in 2.4.15pre9aa1: 10_vm-16
> Only in 2.4.15aa1: 10_vm-17
> 
> 	Dropped a leftover touch_buffer in bread (there's just one in getblk in
> 	-aa, and we need it in getblk [not only for reiserfs]).
> 
> Andrea
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