Re: [PATCH 0/4] fix & merge block_status_above and is_allocated_above

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 25.11.2019 um 11:08 hat Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy geschrieben:
> Ping?
> 
> Hi! Why so silent? Postpone this to 5.0? This is fixing the same
> problem with block commit, like Kevin's series, just commit not to mid
> but to base..

To be honest, I think by now we've found so many problems around short
backing files, each with a non-trivial fix, that I don't think we can
have a reasonably complete fix in -rc3 without risking breaking
everything. None of the problems are new, in fact I think they have
existed since day one of resize/commit, and nobody has reported problems
before, so they can't be hitting a large number of users.

So, reluctantly, I have to admit that both series and whatever we'll add
on top are probably better kept for 5.0 (and 4.2.1) rather than added
very late into 4.2.

Kevin