Re: updated writeback patches for 2.5.8

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Date: Mon Apr 22 2002 - 01:53:38 EST


Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 11:28:28PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Minix and sysvfs are broken - fixing those will happen shortly
>
> I will do sysvfs - there's a large number of changes pending and it'd
> rather appliy them in the right order..
>

Thanks. It looks to be very similar to the ext2 changes.

We also need to not go BUG() if ->prepare_write returns
an error. It's pretty unlikely - it'd need an IO error
against an indirect which had already been successfully
read and then evicted (I think). But proper recovery there
would be better.

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