linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: fix message in ext4

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Message-Id: <20110801135628.3257a561.toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Mon, 1 Aug 2011 13:56:28 +0900
From:	Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@...fujitsu.com>
To:	tytso@....edu, adilger.kernel@...ger.ca
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: fix message in ext4_remount for rw-remount case

If there are some inodes in orphan list while a filesystem is being 
read-only mounted, we should recommend that pepole umount and then
mount it when they try to remount with read-write. But the current
message/comment recommends that they umount and then remount it.

ext4_remount:
	/*
	 * If we have an unprocessed orphan list hanging
	 * around from a previously readonly bdev mount,
	 * require a full umount/remount for now.
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	 */
	if (es->s_last_orphan) {
		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_WARNING, "Couldn't "
				"remount RDWR because of unprocessed "
				"orphan inode list.  Please "
				"umount/remount instead");
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Signed-off-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@...fujitsu.com>
---
 fs/ext4/super.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 9ea71aa..c518522 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -4390,13 +4390,13 @@ static int ext4_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data)
 			/*
 			 * If we have an unprocessed orphan list hanging
 			 * around from a previously readonly bdev mount,
-			 * require a full umount/remount for now.
+			 * require a full umount/mount for now.
 			 */
 			if (es->s_last_orphan) {
 				ext4_msg(sb, KERN_WARNING, "Couldn't "
 				       "remount RDWR because of unprocessed "
 				       "orphan inode list.  Please "
-				       "umount/remount instead");
+				       "umount/mount instead");
 				err = -EINVAL;
 				goto restore_opts;
 			}
-- 
1.5.5.6
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