Re: [PATCH/RFC] Lustre VFS patch, version 2

From: Dipankar Sarma
Date: Mon Jun 07 2004 - 13:09:22 EST


On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 02:55:48AM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
>
> > 10. "Have these patches undergone any siginifant test?" by Anton Blanchard:
> >
> > There are two important questions I think:
> > - Do the patches cause damage?
> > Probably not anymore. SUSE has done testing and it appears the
> > original patch I attached didn't break things (after one fix was
> > made).
>
> IBM did a lot of the work on that issue and it took the better part of a
> week to find, fix and verify.

AFAIK, Maneesh asked about revalidate_special() returning negative dentries
and no checking of it in path lookup(), but got no reply from Lustre
folks. It is clearly broken. Maneesh has more breakage from Lustre
VFS patches now. It would be helpful if they atleast comment on
fixes for those.

Thanks
Dipankar
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