Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:30:53 -0700 | From | Joel Becker <> | Subject | Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] Revert "writeback: limit write_cache_pages integrity scanning to current EOF" |
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On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 01:16:11AM -0700, Joel Becker wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 07:20:33PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Your call, I guess. If any ocfs2 fix looks scary, and you'd prefer to > > have an -rc4 (in a few days - not today) with just the revert, I'm ok > > with that. Even if it's only a "at least no worse than 2.6.34" > > situation rather than a real fix. > > If -rc4 isn't coming for a couple of days, can we hold off on > the decision until we get a chance to think about a paper-over solution > for it? Then we can avoid the revert.
Linus, I'm going to withdraw the revert request for now. Our proposed paper-over solution is too big, and we're just going to focus on the actual fix. This will be for .35. Yes, .35-rc will have a BUG_ON with refcount trees until we get the fix in, but I'd rather avoid the churn when the final .35 should have Dave's patch and our fix.
Joel
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