On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 11:10:16PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 11:56:18AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > 2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > > Turns out this patch introduces a worse regression than it fixes. The > bug that the patches fixes is that on-line resizes of filesystems with > a 1k blocksize will usually fail. The regression is that when a > filesystem with 1k blocksize is stressed, the filesystem can get > corrupted. On balance, on-line resizing failing is less of a disaster > than corrupting the filesystem when its stressed. Fortunately, it's > only an issue when the filesystem blocksize is less than the page > size, which isn't the common case at least for the x86. > > There are patches queued up to address this, but they haven't hit > mainline yet. Probably best to pull this from the stable tree for > now. Thanks for letting me know, I've now dropped it from this release. greg k-h -- 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
