[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Patch to recover orphans from the slot during mount

[Joel Becker]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 06:01:24PM -0800, Srinivas Eeda wrote:
> Currently we only queue recovery during mount if the journal is dirty.
> 
> If the last node holding orphans in other node's orphan directory dies and
> is the first one to mount then it only recovers its orphan directory which
> leaves the orphans in other nodes slots. Since the other nodes journals are
> clean they will not queue to recover their orphan directory.
> 
> This patch queues to recover orphans when the slot is next used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Eeda <srinivas.eeda at oracle.com>

This is always safe to do.
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker at oracle.com>

Joel

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