Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 2003 14:12:30 -0300 (BRT) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: -- END OF BLOCK -- (fwd) |
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On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 10:08:02AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > The quota code you have in -ac is new Jan Kara's stuff (which supports > > both formats, etc) plus the ext3 deadlock avoidance and the compat stuff ? > > > > Christoph, for what reason have you removed the ext3 deadlock avoidance > > patches? And also, what else have you changed wrt originals Jan code ? > > Umm, I didn't not remove anything. I backported Jan's code from 2.5 > long ago and resynched with 2.5 from time to time. I sent this code > to Alan and Andrea for -aa and -ac and now sent it to you with the > changes you requested (make the old quota format and userland ABI > compiled in unconditionally.) > > Now it seems Alan merged other stuff without telling the person > who send him the original patch, thus -ac seems to have code the > XFS tree and -aa don't have. > > I've now extracted the ext3 quota changes from -ac for you. Note > that their only relation of them to the new quota code is that > the patch is ontop of it and thus takes it into account, the problem > is an old one. > > Here's the patch, probably the last 2.4 patch from me if we really > want to play the hot potatoe game. > > > Lets have -pre6 soon to fix up this mess (which is causing DEADLOCKS), ok? > > s/cause/not fix existing/ > > > p.s. yes, the patch is more ugly than anything I'd usually submit. > but it's not mine and I don't have any interest in it. merge it asis > or clean it up yourself - I don't care anymore.
Thanks a lot for the patch. Its applied. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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