Re: [PATCH] Improve async metadata behavior

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 22:36 +0100, Christian Neumair wrote:
> I initially hoped to resolve bug 152993 [1] with this patch, but the
> issue was actually another subtile metadata issue.
> This patch is not very well tested, it's meant to resolve one of the
> metadata FIXMES:
> 
> +/* if a move/copy operation is in progress and metadata on the target
> is set during the
> + * async operation, we have to keep the metadata sets around until the
> copy/move operation
> + * is finished */
> 
> It may not be a good idea to include it in the 2.14 release unless it is
> well tested.

I think the basic approach seems right, but I agree that we should
probably not apply it so late in the cycle. The metadata stuff is hard
to test and problems with it could cause data loss.

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