From: Hidehiro Kawai Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] jbd: possible filesystem corruption fixes Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:01:24 +0900 Message-ID: <480F1704.5080607@hitachi.com> References: <48089B86.5020108@hitachi.com> <20080418140946.GA26062@unused.rdu.redhat.com> <1208546807.9475.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Josef Bacik , 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: cmm@us.ibm.com Return-path: Received: from mail4.hitachi.co.jp ([133.145.228.5]:59458 "EHLO mail4.hitachi.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751188AbYDWLBj (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:01:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1208546807.9475.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Mingming Cao wrote: >>>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. > > Could you sent Ext4/JBD2 version patches? Thanks! I will try it, but I don't know I can send the Ext4/JBD2 version within a reasonable time because I haven't read Ext4/JBD2 codes so much yet. >>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. > > I hope we have a better ordered mode very soon too. Just thought it's > still valid to fix the current ordered mode for people who uses > linux-2.6.25 kernel today. And older kernel users will be happy if someone or I make a backport of this patch set. Regards, -- Hidehiro Kawai Hitachi, Systems Development Laboratory Linux Technology Center