[Lucid] SRU: Lucid kernel is missing a large number of important ext4 bug fixes

[Tim Gardner]

On 06/23/2010 01:12 AM, Stefan Bader wrote:
> Attached are my notes. There were some patches that are really hard to estimate
> their impact. On the other hand also quite a few of them are limited to fix
> issues on non-default use modes.
>
> I would vote for having a test kernel and getting the xfstest suite (usable for
> ext4 as well) ready and then split up test runs between us: I guess one 64bit,
> one 32bit and probably 32bit userspace with 64bit kernel.
>
> If we feel confident with that, we would proceed with adding the patches to the
> next proposed.

For changes of this magnitude I advocate cherry-picking all of these 
patches and building a pre-proposed kernel with them as part of the 
normal process. We want as much test coverage as possible. The folks 
using pre-proposed are _supposed_ to know what they are doing, right? , 
I'd like to know sooner then later if it kills their kittens or eats 
their lunch.

rtg
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