Re: LTP ustat01 test fails on NFSROOT

[Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Oct 26, 2007, at 4:42 AM, Kumar Gala wrote:

> On Oct 25, 2007, at 12:59 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> > Could you please try the following patch?
> >
> > Cheers
> >   Trond
> > --------------------------------- CUT HERE  
> > -----------------------------
> > From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
> > Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:56:10 -0400
> > NFS: Fix the ustat() regression
> >
> > Since 2.6.18, the superblock sb->s_root has been a dummy dentry  
> > with a
> > dummy inode. This breaks ustat(), which actually uses sb->s_root in a
> > vfstat() call.
> >
> > Fix this by making the s_root a dummy alias to the directory inode  
> > that was
> > used when creating the superblock.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
> > ---
> >
> >  fs/nfs/getroot.c |   81 +++++++++++++++++ 
> > +------------------------------------
> >  1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
>
> Any reason not to send this to Linus as a bug fix for 2.6.24 (and  
> possibly stable)?

ping.  would love to see this is Linus's tree.

- k
-
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/