linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ext3/jbd: Avoid WARN() messages when failing to write to the superblock

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Message-ID: <20080920191442.311c043e@infradead.org>
Date:	Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:14:42 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Linux Kernel Developers List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3/jbd: Avoid WARN() messages when failing to write
 to the superblock

On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:35:47 -0400
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:

> This fixes some very common warnings reported by kerneloops.org

just to quantify "very common"; I did a quick count on the database and
there have been 4920 reports of the WARNing fixed by this patch...
that's quite a bit.


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