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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	sct@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] jbd2: replace potentially false assertion with if block
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 13:45:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080308184543.GA4284@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e9e943910803081037w5e7a8743p449b999001b94281@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 06:37:08PM +0000, Duane Griffin wrote:
> Sorry if I'm missing something here, but I think the caches do need to
> be checked. If jbd/ext3 are not modular then even if initialisation
> fails the journal code may still be called later. I noticed this when
> testing the failure modes after making my original fix.

Doh, I think you're right.  Just because jbd initialization fails
ext3 could succeed later on.   We probably want to make ext3
initialization fail early in that case through an exported flag.

> I've modified my changes to match the way you suggested doing things
> in your earlier reply (and thanks for the review, BTW). If you would
> prefer I'll rework my changes as a separate patch on top. Just let me
> know.

I don't really care how it's delivered.  Just consider my patches a 
scetch and do whatever you think is best with them.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-08 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1204853484-25968-1-git-send-email-duaneg@dghda.com>
2008-03-07  1:31 ` [PATCH 1/3] jbd2: eliminate duplicated code in revocation table init/destroy functions Duane Griffin
     [not found]   ` <1204853484-25968-2-git-send-email-duaneg@dghda.com>
2008-03-07  1:31     ` [PATCH 2/3] jbd2: replace potentially false assertion with if block Duane Griffin
2008-03-07 21:23       ` Andreas Dilger
2008-03-08 13:33         ` Duane Griffin
2008-03-08 15:02         ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-03-08 16:40           ` Duane Griffin
2008-03-08 16:42             ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-03-08 18:37               ` Duane Griffin
2008-03-08 18:45                 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
     [not found]   ` <1204853484-25968-3-git-send-email-duaneg@dghda.com>
2008-03-07  1:31     ` [PATCH 3/3] jbd2: only create debugfs and stats entries if cache initialisation is successful Duane Griffin
2008-03-07 21:24       ` Andreas Dilger
2008-03-07 21:52   ` [PATCH 1/3] jbd2: eliminate duplicated code in revocation table init/destroy functions Andreas Dilger
2008-03-08  0:05     ` Mingming Cao
2008-03-08 13:26       ` Duane Griffin
2008-03-08 13:20     ` Duane Griffin

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