Re: 2.4.2 fs/inode.c

[Jan Harkes]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 07:04:52PM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:42:15PM -0500, Jan Harkes wrote:
> > 
> > I found some code that seems wrong and didn't even match it's comment.
> > Patch is against 2.4.2, but should go cleanly against 2.4.3-pre6 as well.
>  
> Patch looks fine to me.  Have you tested it?  If this goes wrong,
> things break badly...

I've been running it for about a night and a morning now, nothing bad
has happened, my ext2 filesystem shows up clean when forcing a fsck.

If things actually break badly, it is a very serious bug in the
underlying FS. The FS should not 'happen to work' just because the VFS
inadvertedly marked unmodified inodes as being dirty.

Jan