[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 3/4] ocfs2: Fixes tiny race between mount and recovery

[Joel Becker]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 10:08:38AM -0700, Sunil Mushran wrote:
> Instead of using generation, we could use ij_pad. Renamed to
> something appropriate.

	I like that, as it is specific to the journal part and leaves
i_generation alone.  Can we see ourselves needing any other use of that
word?

Joel

> Sunil Mushran wrote:
>> Possible Solution:
>> Use the i_generation in the journal inode as a recovery counter.
>> Meaning, we increment it each time we recover the journal. That
>> is, from mount thread in ocfs2_journal_load() and from recovery
>> thread in ocfs2_replay_journal(). In both places, we have the
>> superblock lock making the writes safe.

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