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TAKE 898070 - fix direct device access causing shutdown

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Subject: TAKE 898070 - fix direct device access causing shutdown
From: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:21:02 +1000 (EST)
Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
Revert to using a separate inode for metadata buffers once more.
Prevents XFS from shutting down due to its view of the world being
modified from below.  The BLKFLSBUF ioctl is another cause of this
"corruption" and was the last straw...

This change also fixes device initialisation failure handling.

Date:  Thu Jun 24 23:15:54 PDT 2004
Workarea:  snort.melbourne.sgi.com:/home/nathans/clean-xfs-linux
Inspected by:  hch@xxxxxx,ak@xxxxxxx,cattelan@xxxxxxx

The following file(s) were checked into:
  bonnie.engr.sgi.com:/isms/xfs-kern/xfs-linux


Modid:  xfs-linux:xfs-kern:174253a
xfs_vfsops.c - 1.454
linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h - 1.99
linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c - 1.174
linux-2.4/xfs_buf.h - 1.105
linux-2.4/xfs_buf.c - 1.192


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