Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 24 Nov 2001 20:39:01 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.15aa1 |
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On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 02:15:50PM -0500, Phil Sorber wrote: > On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 02:50, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > Only in 2.4.15aa1: 00_iput-unmount-corruption-fix-1 > > > > Fix iput umount corruption. > > Is this the problem that Al put out a patch for yesterday? And is his > patch been tested and working?
it's an alternate fix (goes back to the pre8 way).
> > > Only in 2.4.15aa1: 00_read_super-stale-inode-1 > > > > If read_super fails avoid lefting stale inodes queued into > > the superblock. > > What is this? How dangerous is it?
pre8 and all previous kernels could left a stale inode if read_super failed after an iget [see the discussion with Al on l-k]. this patch should fix it in practice for all fs in the kernel.
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