Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Nov 2000 02:03:19 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: ext2 filesystem corruptions back from dead? 2.4.0-test11 |
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On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
[I wrote] > > ? > > If you have a l-k feed from future - please share. I'm not saying that > > Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 04:37:21 -0500 (EST) > > > fs/* is not the source of that stuff, but I sure as hell had not said > > that it is. I simply don't know yet. > > You were pointing out changes to reproduce the effect.
Erm... Since then the problem had been reproduced on the patched tree, so we apparently have something else. Behaviour on disk/quota overflow is a separate story - even with fixes for that problem stays.
> > > Since there have been not kernel changes to the driver that effect the > > > code since 2.4.0-test5 or test6 and it now randomly shows up after five or > > > six revisions out from the change, and the changes were chipset only. > > > > generic_unplug_device() was changed more or less recently. I doubt that > > it is relevant, but... > > Cool, the issue was that I get tried of people blaming the ATA subsystem > for things that it does not do or has control over. Basically, I kill > bogus threads that try to tag me with an old problem of the past that was > a hardware issue.
<shrug> I don't see any attempts to tag you (or ATA subsystem, for that matter) in that thread. And thread is hardly bogus... I agree that changes in drivers/ide/* are very unlikely to be the source of that, but information of that kind can help to weed out some of the changes in ll_rw_blk.c.
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