linux-ext4 - Re: [GIT PULL] ext4 bug fixes

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Message-ID: <20080824010554.GE18169@mit.edu>
Date:	Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:05:54 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ext4 bug fixes

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 07:44:39PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >       ext4: Initialize writeback_index to 0 when allocating a new inode
> 
> Since commit 7d455e0030eeab820773e7786605be4d9e56a04b this is already
> done in common code, so this changeset doesn't have any effect.
> 

Hmm, I thought Andrew said he this was better to do in each filesystem
rather than in the common code, so I thought he was NACK'ing that
patch.  Still, I see his sign-off, so I guess I must have misread the
thread.....

						- Ted

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