Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755137Ab0GFTJX (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jul 2010 15:09:23 -0400 Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:51785 "EHLO rcsinet10.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752852Ab0GFTJW (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jul 2010 15:09:22 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 12:06:50 -0700 From: Joel Becker To: Linus Torvalds , Dave Chinner , Linux Kernel , ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com, Tao Ma , Dave Chinner , Christoph Hellwig , Mark Fasheh Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] Revert "writeback: limit write_cache_pages integrity scanning to current EOF" Message-ID: <20100706190650.GE17961@mail.oracle.com> Mail-Followup-To: Linus Torvalds , Dave Chinner , Linux Kernel , ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com, Tao Ma , Dave Chinner , Christoph Hellwig , Mark Fasheh References: <20100628173529.GA10573@mail.oracle.com> <20100629002421.GY6590@dastard> <20100629005403.GC24343@mail.oracle.com> <20100629015822.GD24343@mail.oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100629015822.GD24343@mail.oracle.com> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Source-IP: acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090208.4C337F41.012A:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 899 Lines: 28 On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 06:58:23PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote: > Oh, no, that's not it at all. This is a disaster. I can't see > for the life of me why we haven't had 100,000 bug reports. You're going Btw, we've figured out why we don't have 100,000 bug reports. Most normal usage will never encounter this. But it is still a serious problem, and the fix is just as high a priority. Joel P.S.: Thanks, LWN, for making me look good on the QotW ;-) -- "I inject pure kryptonite into my brain. It improves my kung fu, and it eases the pain." Joel Becker Consulting Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/