* Stephen C. Tweedie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 19:38, Chris Wright wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Definitely; it's the one I gave akpm.  The lock reworking is going to
> remove one layer of locks, so it's worthwhile from that point of view;
> but it's longer-term, and I don't know for sure of any paths to chaos
> with that simpler journal_unmap_buffer() fix in place.  (It's just very
> hard to _prove_ all cases are correct without the locking rework.)

Great, I'll add to -stable queue.  Thanks Stephen.
-chris
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