Subject: Re: ext3 journalling BUG on full filesystem
From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Mark Wong <markw@osdl.org>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:09:39 +0000
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Hi,

On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 10:39, Jan Kara wrote:

>   Actually the patch you atached showed in the end as not covering all
> the cases and so Stephen agreed to stay with the first try (attached)
> which should cover all known cases (although it's not so nice).

Right.  The later patch is getting reworked into a proper locking
overhaul for the journal_put_journal_head() code.  The earlier one (that
Jan attached) is the one that's appropriate in the mean time; it covers
all of the holes we know about for sure and has proven robust in
testing.

--Stephen

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