On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 02:02:24PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:01:35PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > Same is true with inode bitmap also. > > > > I don't see how this patch could affect any races with the inode > bitmaps; the patch only affects mballoc.c, and only changes the > locking around bitmaps. The intent was to explain why we need [PATCH -V2 5/5] ext4: Fix the race between read_inode_bitmap and ext4_new_inode > > This is one that I think we may want to send to Linus soon as a 2.6.28 > bugfix. > Yes. -aneesh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html