linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4/jbd2: don't wait (forever) for stale tid caused by wraparound

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Message-ID: <20130318143404.GB14430@thunk.org>
Date:	Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:34:04 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	George Barnett <gbarnett@...assian.com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Debian kernel maintainers <debian-kernel@...ts.debian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4/jbd2: don't wait (forever) for stale tid caused by
 wraparound

One other observeration; problems relating to tid wrap have been
around for a very long time.  It's an issue for both ext3 and ext4, so
Red Hat and SuSE have been shipping QA'ed enterprise kernels with this
issue for over a decade.  This is one of the reasons why I don't think
it's a good idea to rush a fix into mainline, the stable 3.2.x
kernels, or the Debian kernel, until we really make sure we have any
proposed bug fixes fully tested and verified.

						- Ted
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