On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 06:23 +1100, Nathan Scott wrote:
> Well, I mainly want to not cause a huge regression for those
> people who were using it in the stable kernel series.
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> Hmmm ... if its that simple, then that should have been done
> for reiserfs and XFS before this change was merged at all,
> surely? That would've kept the old (albeit not quite correct)
> behaviour without the regression, and given ample opportunity
> for the remaining filesystems to get properly fixed up... no?
I don't know whether that would be simple or not (not having looked
closely at the xfs implementation), but these patches were discussed on
linux-fsdevel and lived in -mm for a while without such a suggestion
being made. Meanwhile, we did update the filesystems we use and test
ourselves, and the jfs maintainers took care of their fs. And even my
suggestion to hold the patch removing the old post hooks was only to
hold it until after 2.6.14 was released and then immediately put it in,
so it appears we would still be running into this issue for 2.6.15 since
it is already at -rc4 and neither xfs nor reiserfs have been updated
yet.
I'm open to suggestions, but I'm not getting a consistent message from
xfs folks, so it is difficult to know how to proceed. I'm also not
clear on what we can hope to get into 2.6.15 at this point.
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Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency
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