From: Hidehiro Kawai Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] jbd: possible filesystem corruption fixes Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:59:43 +0900 Message-ID: <480F169F.4060104@hitachi.com> References: <48089B86.5020108@hitachi.com> <20080418140946.GA26062@unused.rdu.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, sct@redhat.com, adilger@clusterfs.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, jack@suse.cz, sugita , Satoshi OSHIMA To: Josef Bacik Return-path: Received: from mail4.hitachi.co.jp ([133.145.228.5]:58865 "EHLO mail4.hitachi.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751094AbYDWK7y (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:59:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080418140946.GA26062@unused.rdu.redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Josef Bacik wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:00:54PM +0900, Hidehiro Kawai wrote: > >>Subject: [PATCH 0/4] jbd: possible filesystem corruption fixes >> >>This patch set fixes several error handling problems to protect >>from filesystem corruption caused by I/O errors. It has been >>done only for JBD and ext3 parts. >> > There doesn't seem like much point in taking these patches as Jan is rewriting > the ordered mode path and most of these functions will be going away soon. > Those patches seem like they will be coming soon and will obsolete these. Yes, PATCH 1/4 and PATCH 2/4 are specific to the ordered mode, and Jan's patches seem to fix the same problems. But the remain patches target generic journaling problems, so I think those patches are still needed. Regards, -- Hidehiro Kawai Hitachi, Systems Development Laboratory Linux Technology Center