Hey, On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 08:42:20AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:37:51PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > > Sure, if you want to. But doing that shouldn't prevent this fix from > > being committed in the mean time, especially as other filesystems > > already use this method for avoiding these problems. > > I'd much prefer aiming for the proper fix first. If for some reason we > can't get it done in time the workaround can be applied. Dave probably has a customer waiting on this. If pulling this in will make a proper fix more difficult to do I can understand keeping the patch out. Otherwise, can't we just remove this along with the other filesystems' equivalent code when the proper fix is committed? Regards, Ben -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html