linux-kernel - Re: Fw: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 UnionFS "BUG: atomic counter underflow"

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Message-ID: <20070902215351.GA23966@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Date:	Sun, 2 Sep 2007 17:53:51 -0400
From:	"Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" <jsipek@...sunysb.edu>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	kyler-keyword-lkml.9c0da5@...rds.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fw: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 UnionFS "BUG: atomic counter underflow"

On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:59:57PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 12:48:35 -0400 "Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" <jsipek@...sunysb.edu> wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 04:56:34AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > 
> > > fyi..
> >  
> > I got a bunch of patches queued up that should fix a few things - quite
> > possibly this one too.
> > 
> > I want to push the patches to korg, but in the mix is a fs/stack.c change &
> > corresponding ecryptfs fix that should go to Linus's tree. The rest of the
> > patches depend on this change.
> > 
> > How do you want me to do this? I guess I'll just send all of them to lkml,
> > and say which ones should go where in the 00/xx mail.
> 
> Let's do that as a starting point. 

Alright, I'll try to spam the lists later today.

> Perhaps we can fast-track the ecryptfs fix into mainline if it fixes
> something there.  
 
Not necessary, they aren't bugfixes for fsstack/ecryptfs.

> I don't want to kep the unionfs tree hanging around forever.  We need to
> work out whether we want to merge it.

Agreed.

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.

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