Re: [PATCH] ext3: skip orphan cleanup on rocompat fs

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On Sat 26-02-11 22:40:19, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> Orphan cleanup is currently executed even on readonly mount.
> It deletes inodes and frees blocks, which could be very bad for some
> RO_COMPAT features, HAS_SNAPSHOT to name one.
> 
> Now the damage is done, because current stock kernels may
> corrupt future fs with readonly compatible features,
> when doing orphan cleanup.
> 
> This patch skips the orphan cleanup if readonly compatible features
> would prevent the fs from being mounted (or remounted) readwrite.
  Thanks Amir. I actually took the version Ted committed to ext4 and ported
it for ext3. Anyway, the patch is in my tree.

								Honza

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