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
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