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Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 23:53:38 -0700
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 11:28:28PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Minix and sysvfs are broken - fixing those will happen shortly
> 
> I will do sysvfs - there's a large number of changes pending and it'd
> rather appliy them in the right order..
> 

Thanks.  It looks to be very similar to the ext2 changes.

We also need to not go BUG() if ->prepare_write returns
an error.  It's pretty unlikely - it'd need an IO error
against an indirect which had already been successfully
read and then evicted (I think).  But proper recovery there
would be better.

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