Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: reiserfs_file_write will lose error code whena 0-length write occurs w/ O_SYNC

From: Hans Reiser
Date: Fri Mar 03 2006 - 12:28:52 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:

>Boy, lots of reiserfs things happening lately.
>
>We presently have:
>
>reiserfs-do-not-check-if-unsigned-0.patch [ merged today ]
>reiserfs-fix-transaction-overflowing.patch
>reiserfs-handle-trans_id-overflow.patch
>reiserfs-reiserfs_file_write-will-lose-error-code-when-a-0-length-write-occurs-w-o_sync.patch
>reiserfs-cleanups.patch
>reiserfs-use-balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr-in-reiserfs_file_write.patch
>reiserfs-fix-unaligned-bitmap-usage.patch
>
>The question is, which of these are sufficiently serious-and-safe for
>2.6.16?
>
>I haven't seen any resierfs bug reports for quite some time (except for the
>usual dribble of it-goes-oops-in-prints.c-when-something-went-wrong
>reports).
>
>So I'm inclined to hold off on all the above?
>
>
>
>
I suggest that they sit in -mm or an rc for ~2 weeks before they go in.
If 2.6.16 is coming out before then, then let it ship without them. All
of these things are pretty obscure/rare, so not unsettling the code
matters more than getting them in.
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