On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Tim Shimmin wrote:
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> 
> Lachlan's description:
>     This fix is for a problem that has been in XFS since day one.
>     [XFS] Avoid replaying inode buffer initialisation log items if on-disk version is newer.
	...

Why wasn't this in the commit logs? Now it just says it was reverted, with 
no actual reasoning *why*. And it apparently wasn't so obvious that no 
such reasoning is needed.

Gah. I ended up amending the commit and updating it with the comment.

		Linus
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