From: Michael Rubin Subject: Re: fsck errors encountered when applying patch "ext4: fix BUG when calling ext4_error with locked block group" Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:37:35 -0800 Message-ID: <532480950902201737j5162125teea57eedbd01873f@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090221012908.GC12966@mini-me.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Xiang Wang , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Curt Wohlgemuth , Chad Talbott , Frank Mayhar To: Theodore Tso Return-path: Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.45.13]:17098 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751157AbZBUBhl (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:37:41 -0500 Received: from zps75.corp.google.com (zps75.corp.google.com [172.25.146.75]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id n1L1bcPP025078 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:37:39 -0800 Received: from el-out-1112.google.com (elfj27.prod.google.com [10.126.186.27]) by zps75.corp.google.com with ESMTP id n1L1bapU017620 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:37:37 -0800 Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j27so563772elf.15 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:37:36 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20090221012908.GC12966@mini-me.lan> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Theodore Tso wrote: > One of the downsides of trying to backport a lot of changes to a > kernel version as old as 2.6.26 is that you miss changes like this. > You might want to think about leapfrogging to a newer kernel at some > point.... We know. Our qualifying process is not the most light weight and the kernel moves fast. Normally we take a snapshot and qualify it, trying to take upstream patches when we can and then also publishing bugs we find. The problem is that with ext4 still undergoing active dev we want to be able to keep our ext4 portion of the tree as up to date as possible. I admit it's a bit of a balancing act. Hopefully we won't be causing a lot of undue burden on this list. Thanks for this. Michael Rubin