[patch] ext3 deadlock fix

[Ken Moffat]

Andrew Morton (by way of Douglas J Hunley ) wrote:
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> My recent fix for the ext3 data=journal umount data loss problem
> has a bug.  The filesystem can deadlock if someone runs `mount -o remount'
> while the filesystem is under load.  Everything which writes to that
> filesystem gets stuck in `D' state.

I recently patched using the 3 patches ext3 patches. Is this a needed 
update to those patches? and I heard that most systems will not be 
effected by this bug. true?
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Ken Moffat
kmoffat at drizzle.com