Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Dec 1999 04:53:15 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.32-pre4/SMP still doesn't boot on Compaq Proliant 1600 |
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On 14 Dec 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In article <Pine.SCO.3.94.991214085553.7905A-100000@tyne.london.sco.com>, > Tigran Aivazian <tigran@sco.COM> wrote: > >I tracked it down to the hang getkey forked from rc.sysinit (RHL 6.1). > > It's the pgd_cache changes - they and the 64-bit locking code have some > problems. I'll make a real 2.3.32 in a moment, that should have it > fixed.. (broken parts reverted) > > Anyway, as a heads-up: 2.3.32 has the new block device queueing code, > courtesy of Eric Youngdale (and huge thanks to Alan Cox for walking it > over and making sure it works and is clean). Expect some drivers to be > broken, but it looks good in early tests..
Linus, change in fs/nfsd/vfs.c is bogus - it breaks mkdir() semantics over NFS. mkdir("foo", 0x1777); should not strip the sticky bit. With the new code it does. Please, revert it.
Question: will you object against switching /dev/loop over regular files to pagecache? Current variant uses bmap()+getblk() for IO and write() for plugging the holes if backing file is sparse - definitely Bad Thing(tm).
Al
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