Re: ext3 journalling BUG on full filesystem

[Chris Wright]

* Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 10:39, Jan Kara wrote:
> 
> >   Actually the patch you atached showed in the end as not covering all
> > the cases and so Stephen agreed to stay with the first try (attached)
> > which should cover all known cases (although it's not so nice).
> 
> Right.  The later patch is getting reworked into a proper locking
> overhaul for the journal_put_journal_head() code.  The earlier one (that
> Jan attached) is the one that's appropriate in the mean time; it covers
> all of the holes we know about for sure and has proven robust in
> testing.

OK, good to know.  When I last checked you were working on a higher risk
yet more complete fix, and I thought we'd wait for that one to stabilize.
Looks like the one Jan attached is the better -stable candidate?

thanks,
-chris
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