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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.01.1109091809180.9183@trent.utfs.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 18:11:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
To: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
mszeredi@...e.cz, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: EXT4-fs (dm-1): Couldn't remount RDWR because of unprocessed
orphan inode list
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 at 20:51, Jan Kara wrote:
> There's race where VFS remount code can race with unlink and result will
> be unlinked file in orphan list on read-only filesystem. Christian seems to
> be hitting this race. Miklos Szeredi has patches
> (http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1108.3/00169.html) to
> mostly close this hole but they're waiting for Al to find time to look at
> them / merge them AFAIK.
While these patches are still pending review, are they "dangerous" to
apply? If not, I'd like to volunteer as a tester :-)
Christian.
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BOFH excuse #180:
ether leak
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