| To: | Timothy Shimmin <tes@xxxxxxx> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] fix barrier fail detection in XFS |
| From: | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:04:31 -0700 (PDT) |
| Cc: | lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, xfs-oss <xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, stable@xxxxxxxxxx, toei.rei@xxxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | <48EEF60D.4020602@xxxxxxx> |
| References: | <48EEF60D.4020602@xxxxxxx> |
| User-agent: | Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) |
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Timothy Shimmin wrote:
>
> This is an important fix posted by Christoph Hellwig today.
> Without this fix, XFS can turn off barriers when we wrap our ondisk log.
> Which could lead to corruption after unclean unmounts/shutdowns
> on machines without a persistent write cache etc.
Ok, it clearly didn't make it into 2.6.27. I assume it it should be marked
for stable?
Linus
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