Re: [GIT PULL] XFS update for 2.6.23 - revert a commit

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Timothy Shimmin wrote:

> Hi Justin,
>
> Justin Piszcz wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Lachlan McIlroy wrote:
> >
> > > Yeah that about sums it up.  In an attempt to prevent log replay of inodes
> > > in cases when we shouldn't replay we also prevented log replay of inodes 
> > > in
> > > cases when we should replay.  We end up with directories that refer to 
> > > inodes
> > > that were not replayed and we read existing data off disk.  That existing
> > > data is usually previous instances of inodes.  We had cases of regular 
> > > files
> > > turning into directories and inode version mismatches.
> > >
> > > Lachlan
> > In 2.6.23-rc8?
> The bad change went into rc7 and was still there in rc8.
> It was backed out for rc9.
>
> --Tim
If one with was running 2.6.23-rc8 with XFS, does that mean we should run 
xfs_repair on our filesystems after upgrading to -rc9?
Justin.