Re: [PATCH 3.2 019/102] xfs: don't dirty buffers beyond EOF

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Wed Nov 05 2014 - 14:58:32 EST


On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 18:09 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 10:28:03PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 3.2.64-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> I'm not sure it's a good idea to pull stuff like this back into
> really old stable kernels.

OK, then I'll drop this.

> This was part of a much larger series of
> bug fixes that were fairly carefully tested. I very much doubt that
> there is specific XFS test coverage on these older kernels that
> would determine if this has introduced problems or not....
[...]

No, I'm not testing XFS at all.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
The program is absolutely right; therefore, the computer must be wrong.

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