This directory contains patches that were sent to Linus for inclusion
into next official kernel.

Currently all patches are against 2.4.8-pre3.
Patches in this directory are subject to change without any notice.

A-panic-in-reiserfs_read_super.patch
    this patch allows reiserfs to cope with an attempt to mount file-system
    with corrupted super-block: reiserfs stores both version-dependent magic
    and version itself in a super-block. This patch just returns error
    rather than panics if they don't match.

B-journal-replay.patch
    following patch by Chris Mason allows reiserfs to fail gracefully when
    io error is hit during journal replay: just return error in stead of
    panicking.

C-old-format.patch
    this patch fixes bugs in the support for reiserfs format <3.5:
    file-systems of this format are now mountable and convertible.

D-clear-i_blocks.patch
    This patch sets inode.i_blocks to zero on deletion of reiserfs
    file. This in particular cures hard to believe bug when saving file in
    EMACS caused top to loose sight of all processes:
     . reiserfs didn't properly cleared i_blocks when removing
       symlinks. Actually -7 was inserted into unsigned i_blocks field. This
       didn't usually hurt because file is being deleted;
     . inode is reused for procfs and neither get_new_inode() nor
       proc_read_inode() cleared i_blocks;
     . now procfs inode has huge i_blocks field;
     . top calls stat on it and libc wrapper returns EOVERFLOW, as i_blocks
       doesn't fit into user-level struct.
     . top sees nothing.

E-extern-inline-copy_key.patch
    this patch suppresses warnings during reiserfs compilation in
    2.4.8-pre3: include/linux/reiserfs_fs.h contains both definition and
    declaration of copy_key(). 2.4.8-pre3 changed "extern inline" to "static
    inline" in definition, and so it mismatches declaration. Patch just
    removes declaration.

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