[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Linux readpage handler

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Thu, 26 May 2011 12:21:00 -0400


On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 May 2011 00:48:54 -0400
> Derrick Brashear <shadow@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't think it's been an issue before at all, and so it's simply not
>> been on the radar.
>> That said, I wonder if the site in question uses btrfs? I seem to
>> recall there were
>> some dodgy btrfs patches a while ago which diddled with journal state.
>
> btrfs on rhel4 / 2.6.9? I wouldn't think so :). And I already know the 2
> FSs involved are ext3...

there were btrfs patches for 2.6.9. thing i wasn't sure of was if
those patches touched outside of btrfs,
i got that none of the filesystems in play were btrfs.

simon's answer is more plausible anyway.