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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Bug #14472] EXT4 corruption
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On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 06:43:11PM -0500, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> It looks like 2.6.32-rc6 is supposed to fix this bug, but it also
> looks like this patch didn't make it in.  Should I still be using this
> patch?

This patch does fix a potential problem and I am planning on pushing
it to Linus; the chances of hitting the race is quite low, though; the
revert which Eric identified is probably what was affecting most of
the people who were seeing problems with ext4 in 2.6.32-rcX.

    	       	    	   	    	      	 - Ted
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