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

[Joel Becker]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 10:35:20AM -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:17:06AM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> The only thing that crossed my mind would be journal version (for when we have
> JBD2), but I think it's better to use an inode flag for that anyway.

	Don't we have extra flag space on journal1.ij_flags?  That seems
like the right place for OCFS2_JOURNAL_FLAG_JBD2.

Joel

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