linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] gfs2 writepage fix

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Message-ID: <Y86vu2WSGWCHpdJL@mit.edu>
Date:   Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:03:07 -0500
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>,
        Trond Myklebust <trondmy@...merspace.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>, cluster-devel@...hat.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] gfs2 writepage fix

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 11:05:56AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Thanks for the heads up. So we had kind of a similar issue for ext4 but it
> got caught by Ted during his regression runs so we've basically done what
> GFS2 is doing for the merge window and now there's patchset pending to
> convert the data=journal path as well because as Andreas states in his
> changelog of the revert that's a bit more tricky. But at least for ext4
> the conversion of data=journal path resulted in much cleaner and shorter
> code.

https://thunk.org/tytso/images/firestarter-fs-development-without-testing.jpg

:-)

							- Ted