From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:01:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Alexander Viro Subject: Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 In-Reply-To: <20000925040230.D10381@athlon.random> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Rik van Riel , Roger Larsson , MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 09:27:39PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: > > So help testing the patches to them. Arrgh... > > I think I'd better fix the bugs that I know about before testing patches that > tries to remove the superblock_lock at this stage. I guess you should > re-read the email from DaveM of two days ago. Erm... Did you miss the fact that minixfs/sysvfs/UFS are choke-full of fs-corrupting races? Patch for minixfs had been posted 3 times during the last couple of weeks, each time with [CFT] in subject. So far - 0 (zero) responces. I'm way past the stage when I gave a damn - it works here and if I will not receive any bug reports it will go to Linus on Tuesday. And no, that stuff has nothing to lock_super(). But unless people will test the patches posted on l-k and fsdevel - too fscking bad, stuff _will_ break. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/